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Boy To Man: The Bull Wrestlers

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The Bull Wrestlers

Season 1 | Episode 8 | BBC Knowledge | March 22, 2017

Health and PE

Personal and social capability

Ethical understanding

Intercultural understanding

Classification: Mature

In Madagascar's central highlands digging up the dead is a precursor to Tim's ultimate test: riding a wild bull.

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In Madagascar's central highlands digging up the dead is a precursor to Tim's ultimate test: riding a wild bull.

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Hiding away in a little known corner of the world called Kyrgyztan, Tim is mentored by members of the Kyrgyz tribe to take part in a strange and ferocious rite of passage.

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Tim is deep in the bush of Cameroon in west Africa, where coming of age means coming face-to-fangs with the killer python.

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Tim journeys to Mongolia to attempt the ancient Kazak boy to man ritual of the eagle hunters. Only if he can train a golden eagle to hunt the corsac fox will he become a true eagle man.

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Tim journeys to Mongolia to attempt the ancient Kazak boy to man ritual of the eagle hunters. Only if he can train a golden eagle to hunt the corsac fox will he become a true eagle man.

Tim travels to the Bijagos Islands, West Africa to undertake the unique boy to man ritual called Fanado. Tim must prove his bravery during a dangerous crocodile hunt, to receive the tribal scars.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this episode may contain images and voices of people who have died.
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