"Skirmish" Jackal Fight | Drakensberg Mountains Wildlife

Jun 29 2012

“Skirmish” Jackal Fight | Drakensberg Mountains Wildlife

Jackal Fight Skirmish Wildlife Photo Drakensberg Mountains

"Skirmish" - Two Black-backed Jackals have a quarrel over food scraps at Giants Castle in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa.
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One of my blog followers recently requested me to re-post this image from back in 2009. It was a good reminder to me how this one had slipped into the deep dark and murky depths of my catalog, so here it is revived for you.

I spent this weekend in

Giants Castle in the Drakensberg Mountains

with two fellow photographers and it was a crazy weekend of

Wildlife Photography

to say the least. Nature did not fail to keep knocking out all the stops for us and this photo was just one such crazy photographic opportunity we were treated to.

On this afternoon a group of

Black-backed Jackal

had come up to the rock ledge at Giants Castle to steal bones and meat scraps left for the vultures. These two Jackal suddenly burst into a quarrel over the food scraps and luckily my lens was facing the right direction to capture the

Skirmish

. To say it happened in a flash would be an understatement. It brings back very fond memories seeing this photo again after it has been hidden for so long now.

I hope you enjoy it and I hope you all have a truly wonderful weekend

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Categories Wildlife Photography on June 29, 2012 by Mitchell Krog | 3 Comments
Tags: black-backed jackal, drakensberg, Drakensberg Mountains, ezemvelo wildlife, giants castle, jackal, kwazulu natal, photography, skirmish, wildlife, Wildlife Photography, zululand

3 comments on ““Skirmish” Jackal Fight | Drakensberg Mountains Wildlife”

WOW, this is spectacular.

Jason on June 29, 2012 at 7:15 pm said:

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Thank you very much Jason

mitchellkrog on July 2, 2012 at 1:55 pm said:

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