Kings of the Prairie

by Keith Stokes

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Kings of the Prairie

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Keith Stokes

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This was taken on the Red Buffalo Ranch (owned by Bill Kurtis) near Sedan, Kansas. On this day we were taken on a tour of the 8,000 acre ranch in an old Land Rover. There are over 50 buffalo on the ranch and we found this group which was all bulls. These are wild buffalo, not at all domesticated. We pulled the Land Rover onto a bluff just out of sight of the herd, but by the time we were out of the Land Rover, a solitary bull was investigating us and slowly approached to within about 40 yards. We all stayed very close to the vehicle.

Finally the first bull moved a bit further away and more bulls came into view in ones and twos until there were 8 bulls, up to about 1200 pounds in size, in a grouping about 40 - 60 yards away.

Captured with a Canon PowerShot S5 IS set at f/3.5, 1/400 second shutter speed and ISO-80.

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September 25th, 2011

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