Nature Notes ~ Kangaroos fighting

Yesterday I could finally go take my Nikon for a mild, ambling

walk, the first in over six weeks. She is a great companion, not

at all talkative and even her shutter click is not too threatening

at a distance and up-wind from wildlife.

If you enlarge the photo you may just see two darker specks

in the middle at the back of the dry grass. I only included this

so you got some idea how far away the contestants were.

I was lucky to have a solid fence post to steady my camera on

since the distance was close to a sixth of a mile and the light

was fading.

No, this is not a friendly 'hail friend, well met' but a sizing up of

each other's strength.

Get your head well away from those sharp and powerful claws!

A bit of wrestling for position,

each one trying to get sufficient grip to rip the entrails out of

the other by balancing on the tail and slashing down with

both back legs.

First one and then the other seemed to get the upper hand,

they were pretty evenly matched

until the attacker who had been grazing on the green grass at

the back before he spotted his rival, finally got the upper hand

and the other chap retreated into the tall grass to mount a

challenge another day.

They all enlarge if you can spare the time . . .

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