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Feeding time!


Feeding time!
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Copyright: Ruud van den Berg (Robespierre) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 181 W: 2 N: 329] (1420)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-04-17
Categories: Mammals
Camera: Nikon D70, Sigma 70-300mm APO
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/160 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Feeding Time [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-12-09 17:27
Viewed: 1249
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Wild Boars (Sus scrola) are common in the middle and eastern part of the Netherlands. Their fleece is thick, bristly, and their colour is grey to almost black.
Wild boars have a peaky snout, very suitable to root up the ground.
Food: mainly a vegetable diet, but also insects and small birds. Females and piglets live together in groups, old boars solitary.
Size could be up to 1.80 m. Strange, but the more eastwards you go the bigger the animals.
The young pigs have a yellow/white striped fleece during the first half year.

On the National Park De Hoge Veluwe we came across these young wild boars. I've posted earlier a photo of them in another situation. They were with 12 and were running and crawling around. Suddenly all of them where running away to their mother and start drinking.
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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4774 W: 294 N: 4020] (13209)
  • [2005-12-10 3:09]

Hello Ruud!
Very nice and unusual capture.Details,sharpness,framing and composition are wonderful.TFS...:-)

Nothing is as big as the "cute factor" in this picture, excelent pork, oops, I mean crop!

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  • reina Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 260 W: 1 N: 328] (2024)
  • [2005-12-11 16:06]

Hoi Ruud, leuke komische foto, met de sigma lens, boet hier en daar wat aan scherpte in maar het is wel een originele compositie.
Groet Reina

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3315 W: 148 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2005-12-12 3:49]

What a funny shot Ruud. Great capture with their little baclk legs and tails showing. Real cute. Well shown, thank you.

Cute set of butts there Ruud! Thanx for sharing this humorous and cute shot. Well done.

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  • cedryk Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 966 W: 52 N: 1694] (5184)
  • [2006-01-03 19:37]

Hello Ruud,
That's a very funny shot :-D
Great compotion as well!
TFS and greetings!
Michal

Hi Ruud,
Singular point of view, I like this tiny boars. Good composition and skin patterns.
only one is a bit out of focus, but the foto is nice.
Regards
hernán

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  • Kris Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 180 W: 0 N: 129] (1812)
  • [2006-04-27 12:44]

That's a very original and funny shot , good idea. Well done.
Regards, Krzysztof.

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