Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blue wildebeest males in duel

Blue wildebeest males in duel

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Original – Two blue wildebeest males fighting for dominance in Etosha National Park. When they clash, they face up to each other with bent knees and exchange horn thrusts. Elaborate individual displays are made during their rivalry and they may bellow, snort and dig their horns into the ground.

Reason

Excellent quality and engaging depiction of blue wildbeest behaviour in nature - we have relatively few FPs of animals in action (feeding, fighting, etc)

Articles in which this image appears

Blue wildebeest

FP category for this image

Mammals

Creator

Yathin S Krishnappa

• Support as nominator – ELEKHH^T 01:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
• Support -- Jobas (talk) 23:10, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose busy foreground - should be croped. --PetarM (talk) 09:38, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
• Support Nice EV and great shot. You could crop some of the foreground scrub out but I would support as is also. |→ Spaully ^τ  11:15, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose Unfortunately the foreground spoils this shot. An unobstructed view would be much superior. Nick-D (talk) 21:47, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose due to awkward framing with the obstructed foreground, as well as the slight motion blur - not enough to convey a sense of intensity, but just enough to be annoying. With the camera used, it would have been trivial to bump the ISO up one or two stops to completely freeze the action. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:17, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:11, 11 January 2017 (UTC)