I clicked on this video expecting a touching scene of a father meeting his newborn foal. Instead I get THIS. I understand that Looking Glass did it for the safety of the herd, but a little warning would have been nice. In the description at the very least.
@Arbiters Kiss Cuteness is part of that homicidal tendency. If something looks ugly, it's unlikely to be able to approach close enough to bludgeon in your skull. This is why I have a deep-set distrust of infants. They're clearly plotting something...
jjboy04 04 No.... the stallion could see that the foal couldn't get up, it suffered contracted tendons in its legs. The stallion did what was best for the foal rather than it die slowly.
iDeNoh horses are actually really smart that's a stallion and its wild so ya the trained horses don't act like that if they do then that's the owners fault and the horse sensed something was wrong with it
yes this is part of nature and everything. I'm very aware and I've grown up with horses my entire life. But you probably should put a small disclaimer in the title. There are some people who aren't good at handling this type of thing and should at least be warned before they watch it. That is all :)
As horrible as that was, we have to remember nature can be cruel and it's about survival. We anamorphise animals and attempt to equate them with our "civilized" social norms. Humans deliberately practicing cruelty to animals is the real problem.
+Julia Caro I know that's what I was saying I didn't come here to see a stallion killing the foal even though I know this does happen I just didn't want to see it.
The foal couldn't stand, there's foals who are born every moment of the day, but if they can't stand, they can't follow the herd. Mares are known to stay with their foals even if the herd moves on. It had to be killed to keep the herd together and safe from predators. And yes, stallions do adopt foals in the wild. There's actually a part of this documentary where a bachelor takes care of a yearling while the rest of the herd leaves him alone. But even IF they adopted the foal in, the foal couldn't keep up with the herd and would've died anyway. Horses can't stand in one spot for massive periods of time. It was better off it was killed.
This is true.. but the stallion could have killed him less brutal, don't you think? He murdered the foal like a spider eating a bug He could have kicked him, he would be dead in a second. it's painful too, but this is brutal killing.
XxMaritxX Foals can still be alive from a kick in the head, and a foal with internal bleeding and hemorrhaging will be much more painful way to die. I was told a story when I was a kid that a foal got kicked hard in the head by his mom because the mare was rejecting him. (She had twins.) He survived, but had severe seizures that nearly killed him for hours until they found out he had swelling inside his skull. This made sure the foal was completely dead and didn't suffer for hours while the mom let the herd move on and they'd both be killed. There's no vet out here, there's no person to rush over as soon as there's something wrong. The horses fend and care for themselves. There's even laws about interfering with these horses lives. That's why the woman who filmed this keeps her respectful distance. These horses have been living in the wild for hundreds of generations. They know how to kill a foal to keep the herd going. They don't kill like cats do as soon as they recognize that it's not their foal, they kill to keep herds together and survive. I see your point, but the thing is: The foal would've died anyway and if he did it with a kick, there was a high chance the foal would've lived in a lot more pain than the way the stallion killing him did in the film.
Yes you're right it's just he killed it very aggressily some horses even stallions adopt foals you're right l agree, the foal couldn't stand up. thats why he did it but some stallions are nice to foals but this one wasn't able to survive and join the herd however the others were ok with the foal
XxMaritxX The horse probably would've adopted the foal if it was an orphan and was able to keep up with the herd. (It's shown later in the documentary, like in the next scene a yearling following a bachelor being in the bachelor herd because its whole herd was killed by a bolt of lightning. Which is unheard of otherwise because yearling's are too young to leave the mother herd and are actually tolerated until 2.) I think the horse was unsure, maybe he was still hoping that the foal could stand on his own. Or he was willing to accept the loss and move on with the herd without the mare. It has happened before, a stallion leaving a mare behind because her foal was going to die and he wanted to move on. There's no kindness in the wild, it's keep up with the herd or die. A lot of bachelors get mares this way, actually. If the foal can't keep up with the moving herd or stand, the stallion can and will leave it including the mare who wants to try and care for it. It's shown later a stallion does it to another mare and her yearling. So pick your poison, I guess, the father chased off the stallion, but I think it was more due to him keeping his own herd. They're notorious for stealing mares. The stallion did the mare and foal a big favor killing it like he did, even hours the herd would be long gone. She would've been left behind by the herd and the foal would've died anyway. If the mare was lucky, she would've found a stallion or another herd. If she wasn't, she would die herself.
A lot of foals in the wild die this way actually... Stallions will kill foals who aren't fit to survive. At the same time, though... If the foal is fit and healthy, stallions will keep the colt in the herd, even if it's not their own. They're not like cats who kill babies in cold blood as soon as they realize it's not their own, but they do it to keep the herd together and safe. Mares would destroy the herd to stay with a dying foal if they had the chance. The stallion was doing the herd a favor and the foal one so predators wouldn't come and kill it. Or if it lasted that long, die of starvation or disease. Horses don't get "jealous" they have a smaller mindset and emotion span than humans do. The major instinct of a stallion, who runs the herd, btw... The lead mare guides them, but if a stallion wants to stop her, he does and makes the herd go in a different direction. Just most of the time he doesn't and protects the herd from behind, including adopting foals and colts under 2 into the herd themselves. They want to keep the herd large, they want to have as many eyes as possible and as many foals as possible even if they're not their own. Watch stallions interact with foals that aren't their own, even in the wild, they will act like it's their own. Predators kill off other males young mainly because they're at the top of the food chain, they get their genes spread faster. Hell, in some cases the males aren't even ALLOWED to kill the young because there's enough females to interfere. The non-pregnant females actually battle the pregnant/females caring for cubs for the chance of the babies of surviving in prides even if it's not the males cubs. But this allows new blood into the group for predators. For prey it lessens the chance of the herd/species surviving.
Stallions can smell if the foal isn't theirs, and yes they will sometimes kill them for that. They want to forward their own DNA, not some other stallions.
@@pl5555 horses know their kin. its been proven. they form bonds and grown horses reunited with their damn many years late have shown "foal mouthing" and gotten special treatment from their dams.
Usually if a foal doesn't get up within the first hour after birth, there is something severely wrong with the foal. I don't know how long she's been filming them since the foal's birth, but if it's mother was willing to walk away from the foal, then it was probably down long enough for mom to know it was a hopeless cause.
Frankies Amazing . I couldn't agree more. When you read the title you expect a beautiful emotional encounter between the stallion and the foal. not this! ! they should have warned us
At first I was like "aww that stallion looks like spirit!" then "oh my goodness he's going to push the foal with his nose and it's going to hop to his mom!" and then....and then I was just sad. Like I get it, he probably DID do the foal a favor, because this foal would've either fallen to his death even if he COULD get up, or get eaten by something very soon anyway, but still...CHANGE YOUR TITLE.
Honestly Looking Glass did that foal a favour. If it can't keep up with the herd minutes after being born, it would have died to a predator. As cruel as life is, its survival of the fittest.
There's nothing wrong with the video. It's sad, but it's nature. It really does need a different title and description. It sounds waaay more friendly and cute then it is. I was expecting a cute video of a Stallion meeting his new foal. Some people may not handle this very well. Especially little kids watching with parents, or older siblings.
A foal that can't stand can't nurse and can't run away from a predator. Looking Glass isn't stupid, he is a horse. The law of nature says only the strong survive, and that foal wasn't strong enough to survive. You may not like it, but you're just going to have to live with it because you can't change the rules. Looking Glass most likely broke the foal's neck, which is much quicker than starvation or a predator killing the foal.
THANK YOU!! My dad's stallion, I can ride him bareback. He's one of the gentlest horses I know, but when people see this kind of video(especially little kids who don't know better) are going to think that a stallion is going to stomp them if the get within a mile of one, and that's not true unless that's how that horse was raised.
Yep I agree with everyone. The title suggests a warm meeting between stallion and foal. There is no hint the father is going to do that. A little bit of a warning would have been nice. Shock to the system😡
This horse do right thing! When newborn foals can't stand, they can't follow the herd, and in few days they will die. This horse just end his affliction..
That stallion did that for 2 reasons. One... There was something wrong with the foal as to why it couldn't stand and walk. And two. It wasnt his offspring so he didnt want that gene to carry on and one day challenging him for his ban of mares
Okay what you guys need to know is that this is from a Documentary called Cloud the White Stallion. If there was SOUND you would here the director telling you that there is something wrong with the foals legs and it is a day or so old and has not yet stood....the stallion realized the foal was sick and there for put it out of it's misery...maybe the owner who posted this thought they were funny or something but it's nature...if you don't believe me look it up...was published by PBS Nature progra
Shocking, but not surprising. Stallions are unpredictable and if this horse doubts for even a second whether or not he’s the father, this is what he’s going to do if the mother isn’t there to stop him. My neighbor’s stallion broke out of his paddock and tried to attack the foal of my older mare Prima. Thankfully she’s named appropriately and she’s a royal BITCH who was able to kick his lights out a few times before he got more than a single stomp in, and by that point the rest of the herd and my husband and I had noticed and come running to break him off. But this is just what stallions do. It’s hard to watch, but this is what they’ll do if they’re allowed to. And this is why mares are so stupidly protective of their foals.
People we are talking about nature! I find it interesting how upset so many of you are about the death of a pony yet, every day hundreds children are being killed and where is the outrage? The outcry for someone to do something about the human condition and the violence in our nation? Oh, sorry, it's all being wasted on outrage about some e-mails. Get serious about the important issues. How can people's lives be something so insignificant. Tell me that makes sense? If you do, I'll know who you are voting for. Bunch of crazies.
+Yandere Senpai what the fuck do you know theses people that don't like seeing horses and foals getting killed is there personality and you can't fuck change and yes I'm mad at seeing a new born animals and human babies getting killed😫😫 but that's me and that them so leave them alone 😠😠😠
Political? How about it being about human life? Am seeing outrage about this yet, where is the outrage about the lives taken by people for no other reason then for greed? These are animals and they do when they have been doing since the beginning of time. Yet, the human race is suppose to be better than an animals but continues to treat his follow men like trash, why? The rest of society continue to move on as if others live don't matter (for example those in government in Flint Michigan) poisoned the water and not one as been held accountable. Where is the outrage? Men, women and children died for no other reason then greed. Police are killing without fear of being held accountable, Trump might become our president Why? But God forbid that an animal hurts an other because everyone goes up in arms. You don't find that a bit outrageous. You don't find that a bit sick? If you don't then there is something sick about you and it's people like you that is what wrong with our Nation!
It's a survival instinct. If you watch the entire documentary, this herd is migrating to a river on top of the mountain. Most foals are able to walk and run within an hour of birth. If this foal can't move, the whole herd would have to stay behind with it and eventually die of thirst.
it was either the stallion that killed him or a pack of wild dogs slowly eating at it, the stallion did him a favor, and that is one hell of a good looking herd
I remember this video, I saw it a few years earlier and I thought the same thing. But then I came cross this fact that sometimes stallions will kill a foal if it's in pain, or if it was born with complications. So the stallion puts the foal out if it's misery, besides it probably couldn't have survived anyways, sadly. It seems cruel, yes, but sometimes we need to let nature do what she does :)
He met a foal from another band. I've seen zebra stallions do this to perfectly healthy foals while the mare is trying frantically to stop him. Male mamals often kill offspring that isn't theirs out of competition.
That was amazing to watch. Ive never seen such behaviour in horses before. It was shocking, but the way things are are the way things are in the animal kingdom.
Welp, my dreams of wild horses running free and mostly happy just got dark... From the Title I thought it was gonna be like "oh hey the stallion gonna go meet a newborn foal" then *BAM* OUTA THE BLUE THE STALLION WAS TOSSING THE POOR THING INTO THE AIR LIKE CHEW TOY FOR A DOG AND KILLS IT!
His mares spooked at the foal, it couldn’t stand, it was going to attract predators, it didn’t smell like his herd, and it was too weak to stay alive. Nature is all about natural selection unlike our human world. The stallion did the foal a favor.
🤬😡This video title is extremely misleading on purpose am sure, and it should’ve come with a warning so that one could’ve chosen to watch or not watch it, it is not a video that I would have watched and is shockingly brutal and I deeply regret seeing it.
A stallion will kill a new foal that's not its own if given the opportunity. Ranchers have long known to rub Vicks in their pasture stallion's nose to prevent it from smelling a foal from another stallion. By the time the Vicks wears off, the foal will have picked up the smells of the stallion in the pasture, and will then be accepted by the stallion that's not it's sire. The title of this video should be changed to reflect what happens in it. It's not cool to 'ambush' viewers into seeing something so horrific without knowing it's coming.
Even though it startled me. This stallion knew the foal wasn't able to walk and follow up he was putting him out of his misery this is wild life People would've took the foal home probably but in wild life it doesn't work like that The stallion didn't want a cougar to grab the foal. It is sad but l think the stallion didn't like to do this.. Would be his last option he knew the foal wouldn't make it
Even if it was born in a stall, the vet would suggest euthanasia within a few hours. A foal that can't stand period is a death sentence, letting it live would just kill it in a heartbreaking way down the road as it got older and heavier. Horses can't lay down for long periods, it literally crushes their organs and kills them anyway.
Actually one of the reasons he killed the foal was because after hours of waiting the baby still could not walk. Usually it takes a newborn horse about 30 minutes to an hour to walk, but hours passed and still it could not walk. So actually it was him putting the horse out of a miserable death.
Yes, horses are known to practice infanticide also. This wasn't his foal, and it was going to compete with his foals for resources. I do think the narrator's soft sweet voice made it all the more shocking because you don't see it coming. There's no ominous music to signal something bad is about to happen. Just a sweet songlike voice, then sudden attack that breaks foal's neck.
the entire time I was expecting Looking Glass to help the little foal up, especially when the narrator said "I was shocked at what happened next"....but he ended up being a very aggressive stud afterall....
OMFG!!!!! WHY DID YOU EVEN POST THIS I THOUGHT IT WAS GUNNA BE CUTE AND IT BROKE MY HEART!!!!!!!!!! WHY DONT YOU TAKE IT OFF!!!!!!!! I KNOW THIS IS LIFE BUT I DONT WANNA SEE A FOAL ACTUALLY DIE!!!!!!!! OMG TAKE IT OFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clearly Looking Glass was acting in the best interest of both herds here. That foal was unable to survive despite the assistance from both herds. Typically it falls on the herd's stallion to...dispose... of a doomed foal, but with Looking Glass' band having moved in and forced Boomer's band away, Looking Glass became the only stallion available to do what had to be done. After checking the foal himself, he took the only action which was left to either stallion. It *was* a mercy killing, if something so brutal can be called that. But it was more a mercy for both bands than for the foal. I see this from time to time with brumby mobs, though typically brumby herds sharing space will work together to help a foal. If it can't be saved, then the stallion who sired it will be the one to terminate it with the other stallion often standing off a small distance while this happens.
No, actually they don't. There is a lead mare and she takes care of the herd. The stallion helps protect the herd. They both have mutual-leadership type, but the mare leads the herd.
I do agree with that. The title is really misleading. But, I'm also saying, this video has been on here for five years and they haven't changed the title yet so I'm thinking no matter how many people bitch and complain about it, it isnt gonna change
I think the humour is the fact that people say how cruel humans are and whatnot, then it turns out that a stallion mauled a young animal for it's own selfish reasons. Also, my friend is the internet, you blaming it on "men" and making a wild assertion makes it a lot more hilarious.
So you know what horses are thinking now? Has a stallion personally told you that he wouldn't see a foal as a threat? And technically I originally said it's very common in nature in general, I didnt say a stallion is expected to kill a foal. Its a natural occurence for animals in the wild, thats not to say every animal is going to kill another's young, it just happens. This particular stallion saw this particular case as a threat for whatever reason so he killed the foal
For everyone that gets upset - yeah it's not something nice to look at. But there is a reason why animals act in certain ways. The foal could be detrimental to the band if it survived, and would probably attract predators. Sad though.
My friend had a stallion pick up a injured foal and he took it to his owners house for the foal to get treatment it needed and the foal was in plaster cast for six weeks and we had to take the foal to the vets and before we took the foal we ask the stallion to put the foals mother in the small yard and to keep her there till we come back from the vet and that stallion did just that and the stallion had killed the dogs who hurt the foal and my friend had teach his stallion to be gentle with his foals and even with foals that was not his as he was a standard bred and he use to race to he had very good breeding that gose to one type that can go long distance race
Anyone who knows anything about horses would have a pretty good guess that this was going to happen. A stallion who picks up a mare with a foal will frequently kill the foal to make room for his own offspring. If little legs couldn't walk or run (and it looked like he couldn't), this was bound to happen anyway.
I clicked on this video expecting a touching scene of a father meeting his newborn foal. Instead I get THIS. I understand that Looking Glass did it for the safety of the herd, but a little warning would have been nice. In the description at the very least.
Luna Nightshade Lord! No kidding!
The horse kiled the foal because It go shocked and was scared
@@daplant_official3723 wrong.
@@okayhi2594 shut up its oly where the part where it moved there
he did NOT do it for the safety of the herd.
oh... well i came here for the cuteness... not for the killer face of mommy nature
Cuteness is a distraction made by Mother Nature to turn your attention from her homicidal tendencies.
@Arbiters Kiss
Cuteness is part of that homicidal tendency. If something looks ugly, it's unlikely to be able to approach close enough to bludgeon in your skull. This is why I have a deep-set distrust of infants. They're clearly plotting something...
you could have named the title ''Stallion Meets Newborn Foal gone wrong''
my little pony: nature is tragic
ThePhantomThylacine That stallion was like Fuck you you stupid foal
jjboy04 04 No.... the stallion could see that the foal couldn't get up, it suffered contracted tendons in its legs. The stallion did what was best for the foal rather than it die slowly.
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jjboy04 04 I need to remember not to feed trolls.
Thats no human Get him!
man, 12 year old girls have been right about horses, they're metal as FUCK!
that's a wild horse
iDeNoh horses are actually really smart that's a stallion and its wild so ya the trained horses don't act like that if they do then that's the owners fault and the horse sensed something was wrong with it
Damn right!
yes this is part of nature and everything. I'm very aware and I've grown up with horses my entire life. But you probably should put a small disclaimer in the title. There are some people who aren't good at handling this type of thing and should at least be warned before they watch it. That is all :)
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As horrible as that was, we have to remember nature can be cruel and it's about survival. We anamorphise animals and attempt to equate them with our "civilized" social norms. Humans deliberately practicing cruelty to animals is the real problem.
Victor Washington yes, there’s a reason why nature knows best. It’s when we get in the way thinking we know better.
😂 Looking Glass went over to investigate and said "Oh...I know whats going on" pauses for a second then body slams the foal
Wow ok, a little bit of warning would have been nice.
+Julia Caro I know that's what I was saying I didn't come here to see a stallion killing the foal even though I know this does happen I just didn't want to see it.
yeah that was sad! 😢
Nature says "fuck your warning."
Best comment ever so funny.
@@skywatcherextraordinaire7014 im am so evil muah hahahahahha
The foal couldn't stand, there's foals who are born every moment of the day, but if they can't stand, they can't follow the herd. Mares are known to stay with their foals even if the herd moves on. It had to be killed to keep the herd together and safe from predators.
And yes, stallions do adopt foals in the wild. There's actually a part of this documentary where a bachelor takes care of a yearling while the rest of the herd leaves him alone. But even IF they adopted the foal in, the foal couldn't keep up with the herd and would've died anyway. Horses can't stand in one spot for massive periods of time. It was better off it was killed.
What? No, it's god of course! What's that mumbo jumbo about the fittest survives?
This is true.. but the stallion could have killed him less brutal, don't you think?
He murdered the foal like a spider eating a bug
He could have kicked him, he would be dead in a second. it's painful too, but this is brutal killing.
XxMaritxX
Foals can still be alive from a kick in the head, and a foal with internal bleeding and hemorrhaging will be much more painful way to die. I was told a story when I was a kid that a foal got kicked hard in the head by his mom because the mare was rejecting him. (She had twins.) He survived, but had severe seizures that nearly killed him for hours until they found out he had swelling inside his skull. This made sure the foal was completely dead and didn't suffer for hours while the mom let the herd move on and they'd both be killed. There's no vet out here, there's no person to rush over as soon as there's something wrong. The horses fend and care for themselves. There's even laws about interfering with these horses lives. That's why the woman who filmed this keeps her respectful distance. These horses have been living in the wild for hundreds of generations. They know how to kill a foal to keep the herd going. They don't kill like cats do as soon as they recognize that it's not their foal, they kill to keep herds together and survive.
I see your point, but the thing is: The foal would've died anyway and if he did it with a kick, there was a high chance the foal would've lived in a lot more pain than the way the stallion killing him did in the film.
Yes you're right it's just he killed it very aggressily some horses even stallions adopt foals
you're right l agree, the foal couldn't stand up. thats why he did it
but some stallions are nice to foals but this one wasn't able to survive and join the herd however the others were ok with the foal
XxMaritxX
The horse probably would've adopted the foal if it was an orphan and was able to keep up with the herd. (It's shown later in the documentary, like in the next scene a yearling following a bachelor being in the bachelor herd because its whole herd was killed by a bolt of lightning. Which is unheard of otherwise because yearling's are too young to leave the mother herd and are actually tolerated until 2.)
I think the horse was unsure, maybe he was still hoping that the foal could stand on his own. Or he was willing to accept the loss and move on with the herd without the mare. It has happened before, a stallion leaving a mare behind because her foal was going to die and he wanted to move on. There's no kindness in the wild, it's keep up with the herd or die. A lot of bachelors get mares this way, actually. If the foal can't keep up with the moving herd or stand, the stallion can and will leave it including the mare who wants to try and care for it. It's shown later a stallion does it to another mare and her yearling. So pick your poison, I guess, the father chased off the stallion, but I think it was more due to him keeping his own herd. They're notorious for stealing mares.
The stallion did the mare and foal a big favor killing it like he did, even hours the herd would be long gone. She would've been left behind by the herd and the foal would've died anyway. If the mare was lucky, she would've found a stallion or another herd. If she wasn't, she would die herself.
A lot of foals in the wild die this way actually... Stallions will kill foals who aren't fit to survive.
At the same time, though... If the foal is fit and healthy, stallions will keep the colt in the herd, even if it's not their own. They're not like cats who kill babies in cold blood as soon as they realize it's not their own, but they do it to keep the herd together and safe. Mares would destroy the herd to stay with a dying foal if they had the chance. The stallion was doing the herd a favor and the foal one so predators wouldn't come and kill it. Or if it lasted that long, die of starvation or disease.
Horses don't get "jealous" they have a smaller mindset and emotion span than humans do. The major instinct of a stallion, who runs the herd, btw... The lead mare guides them, but if a stallion wants to stop her, he does and makes the herd go in a different direction. Just most of the time he doesn't and protects the herd from behind, including adopting foals and colts under 2 into the herd themselves. They want to keep the herd large, they want to have as many eyes as possible and as many foals as possible even if they're not their own. Watch stallions interact with foals that aren't their own, even in the wild, they will act like it's their own. Predators kill off other males young mainly because they're at the top of the food chain, they get their genes spread faster. Hell, in some cases the males aren't even ALLOWED to kill the young because there's enough females to interfere. The non-pregnant females actually battle the pregnant/females caring for cubs for the chance of the babies of surviving in prides even if it's not the males cubs. But this allows new blood into the group for predators. For prey it lessens the chance of the herd/species surviving.
Stallions can smell if the foal isn't theirs, and yes they will sometimes kill them for that. They want to forward their own DNA, not some other stallions.
Courtney N. Zebras will do that, these Mustangs dont.
@@pl5555 horses know their kin. its been proven. they form bonds and grown horses reunited with their damn many years late have shown "foal mouthing" and gotten special treatment from their dams.
Usually if a foal doesn't get up within the first hour after birth, there is something severely wrong with the foal. I don't know how long she's been filming them since the foal's birth, but if it's mother was willing to walk away from the foal, then it was probably down long enough for mom to know it was a hopeless cause.
WARNING WOULD BE NICE. MISLEADING TITLE. BAD. BAD. BAD.
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Frankies Amazing . I couldn't agree more. When you read the title you expect a beautiful emotional encounter between the stallion and the foal. not this! ! they should have warned us
omg me too! I was horrified and cried when I saw what actually happened :(
Title is good, stallion meets foal - it's right.
OMG! If i know to see things like that, i dont show this horrorfull movie!!! The title:Stallion kills his foal!😵😢
At first I was like "aww that stallion looks like spirit!" then "oh my goodness he's going to push the foal with his nose and it's going to hop to his mom!" and then....and then I was just sad. Like I get it, he probably DID do the foal a favor, because this foal would've either fallen to his death even if he COULD get up, or get eaten by something very soon anyway, but still...CHANGE YOUR TITLE.
Nature is not like Disney has painted
nyna753
You are absolutely right. Disney paints a family friendly picture of this, sometimes cruel, world. 👍
that mustang did the foal a really big favor
yep
when you think about it, the stallion actually saved the foal from a slow death by starvation.
And most likely the mare.
Mare’s usually refuse to leave the foal, even if it means to be left alone and dying.
Saved the herd, possibly several mares from potential predators, disease, starvation.
As much as it's horrifying, i do think it was the most merciful that could have been done.
Laughing at all the butthurt comments.
These are the same people that cry when they're made fun of on the internet.
Okay..?
Honestly Looking Glass did that foal a favour. If it can't keep up with the herd minutes after being born, it would have died to a predator. As cruel as life is, its survival of the fittest.
yep
Pure baby
That's what stallions do though
Jesus fucking Christ, and here I thought this would be a wholesome video.
Holy mother of God! I never realized horses could do that.
I thought stallion only do that to breed with the mare
There's nothing wrong with the video. It's sad, but it's nature. It really does need a different title and description. It sounds waaay more friendly and cute then it is. I was expecting a cute video of a Stallion meeting his new foal. Some people may not handle this very well. Especially little kids watching with parents, or older siblings.
I think people find it so shocking because its a animal we normally assume is just a 'placid herbivore'.
Wtf!!! I thought this was going to be a cute, kind video!
me to but it wasn't
Some people are trying to mislead us with just the title. However, I appreciate the video itself, very high educational value.
Sonya Meade me too... Maybe a warning.
A foal that can't stand can't nurse and can't run away from a predator. Looking Glass isn't stupid, he is a horse. The law of nature says only the strong survive, and that foal wasn't strong enough to survive. You may not like it, but you're just going to have to live with it because you can't change the rules. Looking Glass most likely broke the foal's neck, which is much quicker than starvation or a predator killing the foal.
Made me cry...poor baby, Godspeed
That turned dark real quick
OMG!! He is NOT just meeting the foal!! :|
THANK YOU!! My dad's stallion, I can ride him bareback. He's one of the gentlest horses I know, but when people see this kind of video(especially little kids who don't know better) are going to think that a stallion is going to stomp them if the get within a mile of one, and that's not true unless that's how that horse was raised.
Yep I agree with everyone. The title suggests a warm meeting between stallion and foal. There is no hint the father is going to do that. A little bit of a warning would have been nice. Shock to the system😡
For the first time in my life, I feel like punching a horse.
Man I thought the Stallion was going to help it up as well, as soon as I saw it attack my jaw dropped!
am I the only one who actually KNEW that the stallion would kill the foal?
one likecure nope. I saw this when i was 10. I recognized the horses and clicked it.
woah, this went in a completely different direction than i thought it would lol
That went the wrong way quickly
Well that was a twist....
Hell. I did cry. Poor little foal. I suppose that is nature, but it doesn't make you feel any better to see that happen to a cute little foal. :(
Still someone thinking horses are cute?
Lauren Bartlett Know what?
Oopps wrong comment XD
This horse do right thing!
When newborn foals can't stand, they can't follow the herd, and in few days they will die. This horse just end his affliction..
Horses can be cute. However, these behaviors are normal in the wild.
That stallion did that for 2 reasons. One... There was something wrong with the foal as to why it couldn't stand and walk. And two. It wasnt his offspring so he didnt want that gene to carry on and one day challenging him for his ban of mares
Tbh the foal was killed maily because it would've been left behind, there was something wrong with its legs when it was born.
Good grief woman. A warning and maybe some intercession from you might of helped.
OMG thanks for the warnimg my daughter was sitting right next to me and we both screamed - never seen anything like this before
If these were wild horses, guess this would've been normal!
They are
Okay what you guys need to know is that this is from a Documentary called Cloud the White Stallion. If there was SOUND you would here the director telling you that there is something wrong with the foals legs and it is a day or so old and has not yet stood....the stallion realized the foal was sick and there for put it out of it's misery...maybe the owner who posted this thought they were funny or something but it's nature...if you don't believe me look it up...was published by PBS Nature progra
That looking glass is a beautiful horse but he's so mean
doesn't meen he needs to do it! hes mean
dude seriously!! I don't need haters! I have my own horse and I know the situation just shut up
tunza stuff for fun!! he did it a favor dummie
YEA LONG DEATH for DAYS OR quick death...where its pain...but then it dies and is gone so the herd can stay strong!
Shocking, but not surprising. Stallions are unpredictable and if this horse doubts for even a second whether or not he’s the father, this is what he’s going to do if the mother isn’t there to stop him. My neighbor’s stallion broke out of his paddock and tried to attack the foal of my older mare Prima. Thankfully she’s named appropriately and she’s a royal BITCH who was able to kick his lights out a few times before he got more than a single stomp in, and by that point the rest of the herd and my husband and I had noticed and come running to break him off. But this is just what stallions do. It’s hard to watch, but this is what they’ll do if they’re allowed to. And this is why mares are so stupidly protective of their foals.
That Stallion knew that it was his offspring.He killed it because if the secret becomes public,the other horses will not allow him to make love.
WHY WOULD HE DO THAT THAT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME
the foal was unable to stand...horses do that to put them out of their misery...read the comments!
I love how looking glasses mare absolutely jolted the minute the foal moved XDD
People we are talking about nature! I find it interesting how upset so many of you are about the death of a pony yet, every day hundreds children are being killed and where is the outrage? The outcry for someone to do something about the human condition and the violence in our nation? Oh, sorry, it's all being wasted on outrage about some e-mails. Get serious about the important issues. How can people's lives be something so insignificant. Tell me that makes sense? If you do, I'll know who you are voting for. Bunch of crazies.
I know right? Here, the foal was killed so it wouldn't suffer. With humans? oh no, people don't give a fuck.
+Yandere Senpai what the fuck do you know theses people that don't like seeing horses and foals getting killed is there personality and you can't fuck change and yes I'm mad at seeing a new born animals and human babies getting killed😫😫 but that's me and that them so leave them alone 😠😠😠
Why is this political?
Political? How about it being about human life? Am seeing outrage about this yet, where is the outrage about the lives taken by people for no other reason then for greed? These are animals and they do when they have been doing since the beginning of time. Yet, the human race is suppose to be better than an animals but continues to treat his follow men like trash, why? The rest of society continue to move on as if others live don't matter (for example those in government in Flint Michigan) poisoned the water and not one as been held accountable. Where is the outrage? Men, women and children died for no other reason then greed. Police are killing without fear of being held accountable, Trump might become our president Why? But God forbid that an animal hurts an other because everyone goes up in arms. You don't find that a bit outrageous. You don't find that a bit sick? If you don't then there is something sick about you and it's people like you that is what wrong with our Nation!
Linda Gonzalez It's just a bit off topic if you ask me. Most people aren't going to rage about those things on a horse video.
Yes a little warning would have nice. However I believe the stallion did what Mother nature has taught them to do. So heartbreaking.
I know this is nature and just the way it is but the title should be different. This could be upsetting to younger ones watching.
A better title for this would be stallion attacks new foal.
I know its nature but still sometimes it still sucks what happens 🥺😭
It's a survival instinct. If you watch the entire documentary, this herd is migrating to a river on top of the mountain. Most foals are able to walk and run within an hour of birth. If this foal can't move, the whole herd would have to stay behind with it and eventually die of thirst.
That was crazy! I didn't know stallions could erupt into violence against a foal like that. I wonder what was wrong with it's legs though... :(
it was either the stallion that killed him or a pack of wild dogs slowly eating at it, the stallion did him a favor, and that is one hell of a good looking herd
0:58 me when i see myself in the mirror
if anyone was paying attention the reason the foal couldnt stand is because its back hooves were twisted backwards
Looks like the foal was suffering from contracted tendons in his hind legs. Plus the stallion wasn't the father, he was from another rival herd.
Damn nature! You scary!!!
I shed some tears.
I remember this video, I saw it a few years earlier and I thought the same thing. But then I came cross this fact that sometimes stallions will kill a foal if it's in pain, or if it was born with complications. So the stallion puts the foal out if it's misery, besides it probably couldn't have survived anyways, sadly.
It seems cruel, yes, but sometimes we need to let nature do what she does :)
What's childish are people being shocked over wild animals killing one another, even if they are babies.
Well that's spoiled my day. :-(
People over here crying about how there was no warning. I started laughing at how the Foals body was thrown around like a rag doll.
It was doomed anyway. If it couldn't get up it'd starve to death.
He met a foal from another band. I've seen zebra stallions do this to perfectly healthy foals while the mare is trying frantically to stop him. Male mamals often kill offspring that isn't theirs out of competition.
That was amazing to watch. Ive never seen such behaviour in horses before. It was shocking, but the way things are are the way things are in the animal kingdom.
Welp, my dreams of wild horses running free and mostly happy just got dark... From the Title I thought it was gonna be like "oh hey the stallion gonna go meet a newborn foal" then *BAM* OUTA THE BLUE THE STALLION WAS TOSSING THE POOR THING INTO THE AIR LIKE CHEW TOY FOR A DOG AND KILLS IT!
That is awful! Why on earth would you post that and why would you not put a warning in the title!
His mares spooked at the foal, it couldn’t stand, it was going to attract predators, it didn’t smell like his herd, and it was too weak to stay alive.
Nature is all about natural selection unlike our human world. The stallion did the foal a favor.
A WARNING WOULD BE NICE!!!
🤬😡This video title is extremely misleading on purpose am sure, and it should’ve come with a warning so that one could’ve chosen to watch or not watch it, it is not a video that I would have watched and is shockingly brutal and I deeply regret seeing it.
A stallion will kill a new foal that's not its own if given the opportunity. Ranchers have long known to rub Vicks in their pasture stallion's nose to prevent it from smelling a foal from another stallion. By the time the Vicks wears off, the foal will have picked up the smells of the stallion in the pasture, and will then be accepted by the stallion that's not it's sire.
The title of this video should be changed to reflect what happens in it. It's not cool to 'ambush' viewers into seeing something so horrific without knowing it's coming.
E. Nash Looking Glass killed it BC it couldn't stand. Not BC it wasn't his foal.
Even though it startled me.
This stallion knew the foal wasn't able to walk and follow up he was putting him out of his misery this is wild life
People would've took the foal home probably but in wild life it doesn't work like that
The stallion didn't want a cougar to grab the foal.
It is sad but l think the stallion didn't like to do this..
Would be his last option he knew the foal wouldn't make it
Even if it was born in a stall, the vet would suggest euthanasia within a few hours. A foal that can't stand period is a death sentence, letting it live would just kill it in a heartbreaking way down the road as it got older and heavier.
Horses can't lay down for long periods, it literally crushes their organs and kills them anyway.
@@SaraNightfire1 That's basically what l said.
The stallion knew the foal couldn't survive.
As sad as this. :(
as soon as the horse struck... I gasped and almost cried!
DAMN!!!!!!! was not expecting that at ALL!!!! what a shame :( r.i.p little guy
WOH! wasn't prepared for that lol.
Actually one of the reasons he killed the foal was because after hours of waiting the baby still could not walk. Usually it takes a newborn horse about 30 minutes to an hour to walk, but hours passed and still it could not walk. So actually it was him putting the horse out of a miserable death.
Attention..stallion kills the foal!!!!
I was not expecting that.
Yes, horses are known to practice infanticide also. This wasn't his foal, and it was going to compete with his foals for resources. I do think the narrator's soft sweet voice made it all the more shocking because you don't see it coming. There's no ominous music to signal something bad is about to happen. Just a sweet songlike voice, then sudden attack that breaks foal's neck.
You want to call me ignorant when you don't even seem to realize that contraceptives can fail? That's cute.
the entire time I was expecting Looking Glass to help the little foal up, especially when the narrator said "I was shocked at what happened next"....but he ended up being a very aggressive stud afterall....
OMFG!!!!! WHY DID YOU EVEN POST THIS I THOUGHT IT WAS GUNNA BE CUTE AND IT BROKE MY HEART!!!!!!!!!! WHY DONT YOU TAKE IT OFF!!!!!!!! I KNOW THIS IS LIFE BUT I DONT WANNA SEE A FOAL ACTUALLY DIE!!!!!!!! OMG TAKE IT OFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clearly Looking Glass was acting in the best interest of both herds here.
That foal was unable to survive despite the assistance from both herds. Typically it falls on the herd's stallion to...dispose... of a doomed foal, but with Looking Glass' band having moved in and forced Boomer's band away, Looking Glass became the only stallion available to do what had to be done. After checking the foal himself, he took the only action which was left to either stallion.
It *was* a mercy killing, if something so brutal can be called that. But it was more a mercy for both bands than for the foal.
I see this from time to time with brumby mobs, though typically brumby herds sharing space will work together to help a foal. If it can't be saved, then the stallion who sired it will be the one to terminate it with the other stallion often standing off a small distance while this happens.
For all of you who are freaking out, understand that these are wild horses. Just like lions, males will destroy rival offspring. Get over it.
THAT IS THE MOST SADDEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN A WILD STALLION DO TO A CUTE FOAL WITH OUT A MOTHER
No, actually they don't. There is a lead mare and she takes care of the herd. The stallion helps protect the herd. They both have mutual-leadership type, but the mare leads the herd.
I do agree with that. The title is really misleading. But, I'm also saying, this video has been on here for five years and they haven't changed the title yet so I'm thinking no matter how many people bitch and complain about it, it isnt gonna change
The trauma this gave me as a little kid first seeing this scene. It all came flooding back rewatching this as an adult. 😂😂😂😂😂
I think the humour is the fact that people say how cruel humans are and whatnot, then it turns out that a stallion mauled a young animal for it's own selfish reasons.
Also, my friend is the internet, you blaming it on "men" and making a wild assertion makes it a lot more hilarious.
HOLY _ _ _ _!!!!!!!!!! it was in the back of my mind, but I didn't expect so little warning.... poor foal.... ya its life though in the wild
Oohhh...that was so sad. I know this is how nature works, but still, that was upsetting.
So you know what horses are thinking now? Has a stallion personally told you that he wouldn't see a foal as a threat? And technically I originally said it's very common in nature in general, I didnt say a stallion is expected to kill a foal. Its a natural occurence for animals in the wild, thats not to say every animal is going to kill another's young, it just happens. This particular stallion saw this particular case as a threat for whatever reason so he killed the foal
For everyone that gets upset - yeah it's not something nice to look at. But there is a reason why animals act in certain ways. The foal could be detrimental to the band if it survived, and would probably attract predators. Sad though.
My friend had a stallion pick up a injured foal and he took it to his owners house for the foal to get treatment it needed and the foal was in plaster cast for six weeks and we had to take the foal to the vets and before we took the foal we ask the stallion to put the foals mother in the small yard and to keep her there till we come back from the vet and that stallion did just that and the stallion had killed the dogs who hurt the foal and my friend had teach his stallion to be gentle with his foals and even with foals that was not his as he was a standard bred and he use to race to he had very good breeding that gose to one type that can go long distance race
'I tell myself that looking glass did the foal a favour. But I just have to face facts, horses are assholes'
Anyone who knows anything about horses would have a pretty good guess that this was going to happen. A stallion who picks up a mare with a foal will frequently kill the foal to make room for his own offspring. If little legs couldn't walk or run (and it looked like he couldn't), this was bound to happen anyway.
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The mare is gorgeous!