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You have faced and continue to experience so much opposition, pain, harm, suffering and oppression. In this moment you were working so hard fighting the opposition. You started small, one little step at a time which eventually led to the moments when you put on your glove, picked up the old, ripped, frayed baseball and played catch with your children as you focused on being present with them, soaking up the setting sunlight, breathing, catching and throwing the ball all while in the middle of this great struggle that tries to hold you captive and prevent you from moving, thinking clearly, functioning and participating in life. You can’t do this alone: the supportive people who are in your life, prayer, and God’s loving presence all play a role and ultimately it is you who is choosing to do this work of fighting the opposition.
I don't know where the sun beams end and the star lights begins. It's all a mystery...
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no serious fight but a clear chance to see where to stand in the ibex ranking of the bachelor herd, Großglockner Mountains, Austria
A little while ago at a lake I visit to watch Great Crested Grebes there was much tension about as Coots broke out into fights with one another just about everywhere.
Samburu National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
Two male giraffes fighting down by the Ewaso Ng'iro River.
Male giraffes use their necks as weapons in combat, a behavior known as "necking". Necking is used to establish dominance and males that win necking bouts have greater reproductive success. This behavior occurs at low or high intensity. In low intensity necking, the combatants rub and lean against each other. The male that can hold itself more erect wins the bout.
In high intensity necking, the combatants will spread their front legs and swing their necks at each other, attempting to land blows with their ossicones. The contestants will try to dodge each other's blows and then get ready to counter. The power of a blow depends on the weight of the skull and the arc of the swing.
A necking duel can last more than half an hour, depending on how well matched the combatants are. Although most fights do not lead to serious injury, there have been records of broken jaws, broken necks, and even deaths.
After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling. In one study, up to 94 percent of observed mounting incidents took place between males. The proportion of same-sex activities varied from 30–75 percent. Only one percent of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females. – Wikipedia
Zebra Fight.
Baring their teeth and even jumping on each other's backs, the fighting Zebras had earlier been enjoying a quiet drink at a watering hole when battle began.
Zebra stallions will fight with each other for females and will even go as far as stealing females from one another. The fights between males are often very violent and can end in death.
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Shot in Sabi Sands Game Reserve South Africa. Not really a fight, since Thandi on the right is the mother of Maribye on the left - unfortunately, he is becoming amorous, and she is advising him of the inappropriateness of that! Sony A9 FE 70-200 at 70mm f3.5 edited in Silver Efex Pro.
The graceful Impala is a slender, medium-sized antelope that can be found only in Africa. It lives in grasslands, savannas and light woodlands, usually close by water.
Dominance during mating season is established via fights that sometimes end up fatally. Males run toward each other, colliding with their horns. Strength and body size are more important than the size of the horns.
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Pillows.
They appear to be cute and fluffy but they're true killing machines!
What you see on this picture is a cruel Pillow fight. The loser has to do the washing up tomorrow!
I ripped its head a second before crashing on the floor….its body saved me from becoming a vampire jam…..and that yellow robot finally died…or something like that, a machine cannot die I presume……
I screamed for all the frustration this fight gaved me…..i won…I WON……
…..then I felt on the machine body, completely strengthless……I slept……
There were three main groups of females, all closely shepherded by a big male. I was under the impression that the rut had settled a bit and was likely that no fighting would take place. Then to my surprise, the stag at the top of the hill, who seemed to be attracting the most females, trotted down with purpose to the stag id be watching for a couple of hours. Sized each other up briefly then, they started a fight which went on for twenty mins or so. Found trying to portray the action very difficult in a still photo.
After all you’ve survived—and continue to experience as a result—it’s amazing that you’re still here, fighting for life even though it feels impossible.
Fighting Lion Cubs.
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Off-camera 580EXii at 1/128 power. White reflector in background. They only started coming to my back yard today (that I saw anyway), and they seem to be much more aggressive than the other bird's I've seen here so far.
Flash duration of 1/36000 sec, I believe.
They really got in to it...the battle was fierce, and the one on the right lost...he got banished from Paradise. But, it was his own fault, he started it.
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These guys are dangerous!
I put an ND filter on and did an ass load of long exposures while two of my friends moved around really slow.