Very keen!

Normally, Cape buffalo are very calm creatures in their herd structure.

The males occasionally engage in fighting to establish their ranking order, and if any predators are in the vicinity, the herd groups together and chases them away.

However, if a female goes into estrous, all the dominant males (top-ranking) start chasing her around, and the fastest and strongest will mate with her.

On occasion, the males get it wrong and mount one of the younger bulls instead, obviously to no avail!

I took this picture of such an occasion on the Thanda savanna this afternoon.

Technical data: Canon R6 with RF lens f4-6.3/24-240mm | ISO 1000 | 1/2000sec | f6.3 | ev+0 | 240mm | WB 6500K | AV Mode | Crop to 5% of the original image | Please note: The picture quality is marginal due to cropping, but I thought the scene worth showing

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