{"id":686071,"date":"2026-05-21T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:57:09","slug":"jackrabbits-have-an-intense-boxing-match-in-the-desert-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686071\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackrabbits Have an Intense Boxing Match in the Desert (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pachucos_art\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mario Alexander Flores<\/a> recently captured footage of two antelope jackrabbits having an intense boxing match in southern Arizona. Or, perhaps, it\u2019d be better to call it a \u201cslapping\u201d match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAntelope jackrabbits primarily fight over mates and territory during their extended breeding season. Because males (bucks) are polygynous and mate with multiple females, they compete aggressively to establish dominance and secure breeding rights,\u201d wrote Flores in his Instagram post sharing the video. \u201c[. . .] Unlike other species that mostly kick, male antelope jackrabbits famously stand on their hind feet and \u2018box\u2019. They repeatedly and rapidly strike each other with their forelimbs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/sound-up-behold-the-adorable-sound-of-an-owl-sneezing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sound up: Behold the Adorable Sound of an Owl Sneezing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSounds like popcorn in the microwave,\u201d jokes one person in the video\u2019s comments section.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy arms are tired just from watching this,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>Watch two antelope jackrabbits have a boxing match below (or see it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYZ-b44gHrv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image of antelope jackrabbit by Hal Beral\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Alexander Flores recently captured footage of two antelope jackrabbits having an intense boxing match in southern Arizona.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85,47336],"class_list":["post-686071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}