'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

Categories: Animals | Conflict

Mothers are generally overprotective, but this hapless sheep didn't know what she was getting herself into when she wandered into the nesting area of the skua mother.

Photographer Josh Jaggard captured these scenes in the Shetland Islands - a bird panicked terribly, protecting her babies from a sheep. She made several menacing circles around the animal, then sat on its back and began to tear out large tufts from its fur.

(Total 12 photos)

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep Photo: Josh Jaggard / Rex Features / Fotodom.ru

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

'Get out!': Great skua protects chicks from sheep

Keywords: Aggression | Defense | Conflicts | Mother | Attack | Sheep | Guardianship | Birds | Quarrel | Grass | Wool

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