Bulls awaiting health care
I was walking in Paipa (Colombia) when, suddenly, I heard a noise in a ranch in the distance. Almost automatically, I grabbed my 70-200 mm telephoto lens to look at what was happening and I realized that one of the men over there had seen me wield the camera. That was a rather dangerous situation. To calm the atmosphere down I waved my hand in a cheering manner, which was well-received. I immediately thought that I would rather walk into the field and snap some pictures instead of going away. After asking “? puedo ver ?” (can I look?), the guys cheerfully answered positively. The ranch owner was subjecting his bulls to differential treatments: those who were healthy were purged and received an antiparasitic treatement (they were destined to bullfighting), while those who were less fit had the tip of their horns sawn off and were destined to training bullfighters. The pictures are here. The blood stream coming out of the horn tip is impressive. I did not know that the horns had such a blood supply.
Blood stream coming out of a bull horn