These three mountain hares tussling in the Scottish snow may look like two males fighting over a female. Not so fast.

“I don’t see testicles, so it’s hard to judge—but usually when you see behavior like that, it’s females rejecting the sexual advances of a male,” says Dana Krempels, a biologist at Florida’s University of Miami. “And I’m suspecting that there are two males here competing for her attention.”

It’s important to note that the male hares, or jacks, don’t usually fight each other. Jacks normally spar only with female hares, or jills. This sparring is pretty gentle compared to the more aggressive behavior of some of their rabbit relatives. (Read “What's the Difference Between Rabbits and Hares?”)

Krempels says that