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Subject: [Leica] The Big Fight
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:08:30 -0500
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Nice sequence!  It would seem that a zebra has no "bad side".  All of the 
shots are great, but the second one seems special.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "PSM" 
<psm1857 at googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:34 PM
Subject: [Leica] The Big Fight


> 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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