Last Updated on 10/14/20 by Rose Palmer
To say that Grant’s gazelles were a common sighting on our African game drives would be an understatement – we saw them frequently in all the parks. Often times, the sightings were of a “bachelor herd” – that is, a group of younger males, hanging out together for safety, waiting their turn to establish a territory with a group of females. Normally, the boys just grazed and hung out together in a what appeared to be a convivial fashion. Except for this time. As we were leaving Amboseli National Park in Kenya in the early morning, these two males were going at it. They would face off, horns down, then violently lunge at each other and lock horns, then separate and start the process all over again. We watched as they fought for about 5 minutes which seemed like a long time to maintain such intensity. Then, for no obvious reason that we could discern, they separated and each went his own way. Go figure.
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