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Subject: [Leica] The Big Fight
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Barney Quinn)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:12:30 -0400
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This is a pretty amazing sequence. 

Barney 

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On Nov 3, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 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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