AS may you know, bullfighting is the greatest sport in Spain, and a very important one in many other countries. And people are quite excited about this sport. They believe certain things about it and nothing can change their minds.

      One of the things most bullfight fans (and others) believe is that anything red makes a bull angry and causes him to attack. Therefore, the bull-fighter has to have a bright red cape and he has to be able to use this with great skill.

      Well, the sad truth is that if the same bullfighter had a white cloth, or a yellow cloth, or a green cloth, or a black cloth, he would be able to accomplish the same things with the bull! Bulls are color-blind!

      Many bullfighters will privately admit they know this. In fact, some matadors conducted experiments in which they used white cloths, and they got the bulls to behave in the same way as with red cloths!

     What makes the bull charge then? It is the movement of the cape, and not the color of it. Anything that you would wave in front of a bull would excite him. In fact, since the bull is color-blind, if you waved a white cape or cloth you would probably get a better reaction, since he can see it better!