Graham Swift

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

British Author

Rutting refers to a specific time when animals mate, often linked with seasons.

Seasonal Behavior

Rutting often involves distinctive behaviors, useful for wildlife watchers to know.

Wildlife Observation

Rutting primarily happens in natural settings, rarely relevant in urban environments.

Non-urban Context

Rutting in roads or paths indicates continuous use over time.

Repeated Use

Heavy vehicles more frequently cause rutting on unpaved surfaces.

Vehicle Impact

Wet conditions can exacerbate rutting as soft ground is more susceptible.

Weather Effects

 only person to see it either so I wasn't going a little bit loopy wasn't big inaudible which is in the like a life for the families most of you know the same family as the bushbuck and look could you and doesn't yada was out in the open with a herd of Impala that were grazing it was sort of coming into rutting season and for some bizarre

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 you photograph lions. Well in the city, you just have to look a little closer. If you get close enough to the grey squirrel, you find out its got buckets full of charisma. But it's not just the small stuff, it's the big stuff too. Now these are two rutting red deer, similar to your

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 It's a small goat sized gazelle with a white belly. It has a white rump patch, and he's got two distinctive horizontal black side stripes. The males have quite substantial horns for rutting in defense. The female horns are shorter, about yay big, but would still do some damage.

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 It's very much like the rutting of mammals, including humans, you know, sorting out our differences, but gentler, no biting allowed. It's just a wresting match, but a remarkable activity. Now, what are we doing with all this information? What's the point of all this?

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 herd and not be on the outside if you're on the outside or a target and even the fact that the males are starting to come into the rutting season you can see there's not too much concern on their behavior they were all hanging out

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 doesn't look like anything serious in these impala obviously as I said it is a bachelor herd and not a not a harem there's no females here so it's not a serious fight for females and well now that's especially now that rutting

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 at spotting the Predators coming we heard impala barking everywhere today at Sandy they were coming from all sorts of directions I'm just checking we're obviously at the end of the rutting season now but these two males

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 important than hiding reven de I suppose it could be you know the null of dance doesn't is not accompanied by a lot of males doing it together at the same time and I think that's more what rutting would be I'm

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 will sort of start to find a little bit a little bit of territory and that's when they become too territorial is during this rutting season they want to bring as many females into their patch

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 able to supply a little testosterone enough to stay vigorous and he won't waste his energy rutting or mating instead he will focus his attention on