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Wisent bullfight

Wisent bullfight

Wisent or European Bulls in winter time often wrestle to figure out who is boss. I spent about 2 hours on a winters morning with a group of 8 bulls. Almost cont...
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Wisent or European Bulls in winter time often wrestle to figure out who is boss. I spent about 2 hours on a winters morning with a group of 8 bulls. Almost continuously wrestling, fighting etc. In this time they don't get too serious but during the mating season evenly matched bulls do serious damage to each other
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NIKON D7200

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Aperture f/32 ISO 1250 Shutter 1/400 Focal Length 8000/10

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Bialowieza, Mazowieckie, PL

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Jan, 2016

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