"For that which befalleth the son of man, befalleth the beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other, yeah, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast; for all is vanity."
The people who commissioned this painting asked for this bulls to be shedding his winter coat and the velvet off his antlers at the same time - which doesn't happen in real life. That's the reason that this fellow seems a little mixed up as far as what season it is. Commission to hang in the lobby of "The Mangy Moose" resort, they wanted this bull to be mangy.