Camargue Cattle
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| France, F | |
| Location | Parc naturel régional de Camargue |
| Species | Cattle |
| Synonyms | Raço di Biòu, Camargue, Taureau de Camargue |
| Management | semi-feral |
| Population size | ca. 5000 heads |
| Morphology | weight: bull: 400kg; Cow: 250 kg; unicolored black |
| History | Bulls are used in a form of bull running, during which young men called razeteurs try to pick a cockade fixed between the horns of a running bull. The bravest bulls are not killed. In fact very bravest of them warrant their own statues. This kind of bullrunning dates back to the Sixteenth century at least. |
| Remarks | some semi feral manade (Provençal manado) is a free running group of bulls, cows or horses managed by a guardian, in the Camargue. The manade is directed by a manadier (or baile in Provençal). There are three sorts of wild bull in the Camargue:: Pure Camargue bulls which run free, and are used for the course provençale or the course à la cocarde. Bulls crossed between Camargue and Spanish bulls destined for the capeas or the corridas économiques. Pure Spanish or Portuguese bulls destined for formal corridas. Among the best known manades are those of Hubert Yonnet, Lucien Tardieu, Pourquier, and François André.. The manades are principlly in the Crau, or the Petite Camargue. The word manade was in ealier times also used for flocks of sheep. |
| Source of information |
Association des Manadiers de taureaux camarguais
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| Hyperlink | http://www.arlestourisme.com/bulls-and-the-camargue-races.html |
| Camargue Bull: |
| http://www.creme-de-languedoc.com/Languedoc/sightseeing/camargue-horse-riding.php |
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| http://www.creme-de-languedoc.com/Languedoc/sightseeing/camargue-horse-riding.php |
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