A bull is an intact i. More muscular and aggressive than the females of the same species i. These animals play a significant role in beef ranching , dairy farming , and a variety of sporting and cultural activities, including bullfighting and bull riding.
Due to their temperament, handling of bulls requires precautions. The female counterpart to a bull is a cow , while a male of the species that has been castrated is a steer , ox , [ 2 ] or bullock , although in North America , this last term refers to a young bull.
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Colloquially, people unfamiliar with cattle may also refer to steers and heifers as "cows", and bovines of aggressive or long-horned breeds as "bulls" regardless of sex. A wild, young, unmarked bull is known as a micky in Australia. The word "bull" also denotes the males of other bovines , including bison and water buffalo , as well as many other species of large animals, including elephants , rhinos , seals and walruses , hippos , camels , giraffes , elk , moose , whales , dolphins , and antelopes.
Bulls are much more muscular than cows, with thicker bones, larger feet, a very muscular neck, and a large, bony head with protective ridges over the eyes.
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These features assist bulls in fighting for domination over a herd, giving the winner superior access to cows for reproduction. Bulls are usually about the same height as cows or a little taller, but because of the additional muscle and bone mass, they often weigh far more. Most of the time, a bull has a hump on his shoulders. In horned cattle, the horns of bulls tend to be thicker and somewhat shorter than those of cows, [ 7 ] and in many breeds, they curve outwards in a flat arc rather than upwards in a lyre shape.
