Give a Kudu a bone?

[Ken Watkins]

I suppose you could say this is relatively unusual behaviour but many animals chew bones for the mineral contents.

Taken in Somalisa concession, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, 6th May 2007.

EOS ID MkIIn

500mm F4 IS hand-held

F5, ISO 500, 1/1000

[Dumay de Boulle]

Very nice sighting this...I have only seen Giraffe doing this, never Kudu its known as Osteophagia...Nice IQ Ken

[Ken Watkins]

Dumay,

Now that is an interesting word just looked it up, phosphorus who would have thought it, certainly not I.

I will confess that the only other animals I have seen doing this are Giraffe.

Glad you enjoyed it.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Ken, interesting behaviour captured here. Good looking youngsters.

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent behavior image , well captured , nice techs and IQ here ,
TFS

[Steve Canuel]

Looks like she doesn't want to share. Neat capture.

[Ken Watkins]

Thankd to everybody for your comments. I always try to post something a little different now and again.

[Marc Mol]

Interesting behavioural image Ken well captured.
Giraffes I've seen do this also.
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

something I have seen on photos of giraffes - never in real life and also never by kudu...

nice behaviour captured Ken - the soft light and pano presentation both add to the appeal here

small nit would be a slight blue cast on the animals - slight desaturation of the blue and cyan channels by about 5-10 points should do the trick