Animals & Nature

Animal and nature myths, from goldfish memory to bulls and red.

Do bulls really hate the colour red?

Illustration of a bull in a pasture charging toward a blue-grey cloth flapping on a pole while a still red cloth hangs untouched on a fence behind it

False. Cattle have two types of colour-sensing cone, not three, so red does not stand out to a bull the way it does to us. What makes a bull charge is the cape moving, and it charges the pink and yellow cape just as hard.

Read the verdict