COMBATS DE ZEBUS

Are the Portuguese navigators in the 16 th century or are there Moorish travellers coming from Spain? Nobody really knows who is behind this tradition on the coast of Oman. As was said, Connaisseur, Ernest Hemingway, "the bull bull is the domestic bull what the wolf is to the dog." See these animals of almost a ton, the broad ear, the wicked horn, the fat full of calories, which Indians call the Brahmins (Supreme Hinduism), in fact, the zébus descendants of the Bos bovines namadicus. Elevés to milk, trained to endurance and swimming, pampered by Hamdan Bin Sultan or Mohammad Fares, two large local "manadiers", they engage in battle ("mnattah") with sometimes stunning rage: the principle is to roll back the opponent's bull out of the defined circle, as a ring boxer is being thrown away in less than 3 minutes. When you exceed 5 minutes, the animals are considered to be traîne. The winner, that the non-insiders and those who depth Arabic screamed a megaphone will have difficulty identifying, seeing its value increase and therefore the pride and notoriety of its owner. The crowd cries, speaks to the strongest of the confrontation and pétrifie itself with horror when one of the bulls makes it difficult to beat in the audience, as a priority on the French with a red tee-shirt. Information taken, a super bull can reach the AED 70 000 and often comes from a specialized breeding of the Netherlands or Austria, the latter being known for offering the world a soda with taurine.