ancient Greece and firmly taken its roots mostly in Spanish speaking countries.
             Bulls used for bullfighting are a special breed of animal and their lives and breeding reflect that fact:
             "This Spanish fighting bull is a long way removed from the Hereford or the Jersey, or even the Texas longhorn. You can let cattle run loose on the open range for generations until they are complete 'outlaws', but they will never turn into what the
             Spanish call toros bravos or fighting bulls. The reason is that the race is different." (Machnad 5)
             There are two races of cattle native to Spain, one domestic and the other wild. The domestic animals came over by land from Asia and were already domesticated by the Celts. The other race came by sea from Northern Africa and was being thoroughbred in ancient Egypt at that time. These latter animals were only barely domesticated and began to roam the Spanish mountainsides wild. This fighting bull is called Bos Taurus Africanus. This bull is a descendant of Bos Primigenius or the Primordial Bull. Some of these Primordial Bulls survived in herds in the German forests and were hunted by m
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