When I spotted these two young bucks, I just got the feeling they were up to something and it might be worth my while to just observe for a bit. You can just see it in their eyes and body language. Bucks don't normally hang out with each other, but rut was over, so I knew there was something else going on. Here's the pic I named the post for.
If you click on it and make it bigger, you can see the eye to eye thing much better. If you just glance, it looks like it could be a "joined at the head" thing, lol. You can also notice a red area at the base of one of the buck's antlers. You might think they were fighting, but nope. This was all done very gently. They would lower their heads, get close to each other, and very gently engage antlers. Then a bit of slow twisting side to side, disengage, and take a couple of steps back. Seems to me they may have been helping each other loosen those antlers, getting ready to shed them. Here are a couple more steps to the dance.
Some new pictures would be a good thing.
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