Protective mama horse hears fowl cry out immediately rushes in to help
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Every parent knows this moment. You hear your child cry, and everything else is suddenly unimportant.
A family was enjoying a day out riding horses. When they had finished up with their ride, they saw a foal peering out of the stable building.
The kids asked if they could pet the baby. The mom said that it might be ok. They then approached the foal slowly, not wanting to scare him.
But once they were close, the horse started backing away. He neighed out for his mother, who was out in the field.
The mother was immediately alerted by the noise. She trotted over to her son to see what was wrong.
The family moved out of the way, giving the mother and son enough space.
The mother and son then walked back to their personal stable room. The family hadn’t meant to spook the baby!
Then the dad said, “He’s like ‘Mom, they were touching me!'”
Luckily, the family’s father was filming the entire sequence of events. He uploaded the footage to YouTube, where it soon went viral. To date, over 3.4 million people have watched this video. It also has more than 31,000 likes and 1,200 comments. People have been saying things like this:
Clearly, a lot of people have been able to relate to the horses in this video! The mare must be an incredible mother.
The mare in the video must be trying to teach the foal to be more social. For the first week of their life, a foal sticks super close to their mother. After this time, the mare often instigates periods of separation, which encourages the foal to socialize with other horses and take the first steps in becoming more independent. Basically, after one week of being alive, foals are ready for the horse equivalent of pre-k.
Over the course of a foal’s first year in the world, their mother will let them nurse less and less, as another way of encouraging independence.
Usually, these activities result in the foal actively learning to nurse for shorter periods of time and beginning to venture out on their own.
This has to make you wonder about which animals make the best moms.
Well, according to the World Wildlife Fund, orangutans truly deserve “World’s Best Mom” mugs.
According to the source, orangutan babies are completely reliant on their mothers for the first two years of their lives.
The mothers also actively parent and teach their babies for the first six or seven years of the babies’ lives. Some orangutan offspring also continue to visit their mothers on a regular basis until they turn about 16.
Of course, it’s not that shocking to learn that orangutans make better mothers than horses.
Orangutans are obviously more highly evolved! But it’s interesting to compare the similarities and differences between the two animals.
The baby horse in the below video was well on track to becoming a healthy stallion, thanks to his mother. Hopefully, the two were able to enjoy one another’s company until it was time for the child to move into his own place.
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