During rodeo events where the bull's tails are pulled to make them fall down. Does it hurt them like a cat?
They don't look like they are in pain.
So is it that their tails are not connected to their spine? And what exactly is it that makes cats scream like crazy when you pull their tail?
2007-09-23 14:32:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It is more an annoyance than a pain.
Pulling the tail of a bull is not how you fell him. Safer than pulling a leg, but we always caught the front and back leg opposite of yourself and flipped them down.
2007-09-23 14:42:56 · answer #1 · answered by Dionannan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at this picture of the skeleton of a bull. http://www.canadianshorthorn.com/images/Figure1.jpg You can clearly see that the tail is "connected to the spine". Pulling hard on a bull's tail definitely hurts the animal. I think they have so many other stressors going on during the rodeo event that the insult of pulling on the tail doesn't cause the animals to do anything they're not already doing - running, trying to get away, ...
And that's one way to hurt a cat. Why wouldn't it scream?
2007-09-23 21:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats are vocal because its how they get us to react to them. bulls get no special treatment if they make noises they just stay in their pen and yes the rail is connected to the spine and yes it hurts them but they dont vocolise it because if they did the human wouldnt react any diffrent so there is no reason for them to make noise.
2007-09-23 21:45:33 · answer #3 · answered by Penguin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋