Mammals: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour

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Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour

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Unbelievable sighting!!! \O


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Amazing ^Q^


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If I had not seen it........... :shock: :shock:


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Do antelope pick up trash with their horns -O-


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Not deliberately I think, but I have often seen them with grass or leaves attached to the horns. How the one in the photo has managed and why, I don't know :-?


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Oryx don't do the ground horning thing, practised by tsessebe, kudu, blue wildebeest, red hartebeest and nyala, I think :-?


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It is a squirrel attack! :shock:


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lol

paper bag I think


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Maybe the wind has brought it and it has got stuck lol


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Old video, but still good :-0




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