Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/02

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Subject: [Leica] The Big Fight
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:04:18 +0530

Samburu is one of the last holdouts of the endangered Grevy's Zebra, the
biggest and heaviest of the zebra sub species. We were lucky to witness a
fight for dominance between two males that went on for some time - these
involve a lot of action and posturing, but for little or no damage. All the
same it is quite exciting to watch! There were three in the group, but a
young one wisely kept out of it!

Two males started scrapping in a grove of thorn trees:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110924_0551Samburu.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110924_0558Samburua.jpg.html

They came out into the open and continued:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110924_0643Samburua.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110924_0678Samburua.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110924_0704Samburua.jpg.html

Finally, the victor got to show his dominant status:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110924_0723Samburua.jpg.html


Comments and criticism as always, welcome

Cheers
Jayanand


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