our alpacas: UFC fight night!

I’ve said before that animal behavior has always been fascinating to me, and I got an eyeful of some new behavior a few days ago when we saw our first full-fledged, knock-down, drag-out fight between the boys. No one was hurt and it appeared to simply be a display of posturing on a dramatic scale, fortunately, and it was actually quite fascinating to see. The question it raised for us, though, is this: how do you tell who “won”, if there is such a thing?
We had a bunch of people over for Matt’s birthday and his mom and my sister had just come out with me to give some feed to the boys. Cinnamon mows through his handfuls of feed so quickly that he spills more pellets than he actually eats, and every time now he’s taken to cleaning up his mess for several minutes after we’re done, hoovering up pellets from the barn floor or the pasture (wherever we’ve managed to feed them).

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