Sparring stags, June 2018Last summer, a team of scientists descended on Rum, in the Inner Hebrides, to tag red deer calves in order to track and gather data on them throughout their lives. The deer outnumber people on the island by about 30 to one, has the animals have been the subject of research since 1953, with individuals being monitoring since 1972. These three year old stags, captured by the photographer Murdo MacLeod, are boxing a dominance interaction where neither