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  2. Stallion - Wikipedia

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    Young male horses without mares of their own usually form small, all-male, "bachelor bands" in the wild. Living in a group gives these stallions the social and protective benefits of living in a herd. A bachelor herd may also contain older stallions who have lost their herd in a challenge. [1]

  3. Horse behavior - Wikipedia

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    Natural herds are more often kept on farms with closed herds, i.e. only one or a few stallions with a stable mare herd and few, if any, mares from other herds. Mature, domesticated stallions are commonly kept by themselves in a stable or small paddock. When stallions are stabled in a manner that allows visual and tactile communication, they ...

  4. Feral horse - Wikipedia

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    Feral horse herds, like those of wild horses, are usually made up of small harems led by a dominant mare, containing additional mares, their foals, and immature horses of both sexes. There is usually one herd stallion, though occasionally a few less-dominant males may remain with the group. Horse "herds" in the wild are best described as groups ...

  5. Horse - Wikipedia

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    Horses fighting as part of herd dominance behaviour. Horses are herd animals, with a clear hierarchy of rank, led by a dominant individual, usually a mare. They are also social creatures that are able to form companionship attachments to their own species and to other animals, including humans.

  6. Glossary of equestrian terms - Wikipedia

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    Examples include New Forest, Dartmoor and Exmoor ponies in their native locations, stock horse s on many ranches in the American west, and some modern Iberian horses in Spain and Portugal. Herds often consist only of mare s (with or without suckling foal s), but stallion s may be turned out in the mating season, with weanling s (especially colt ...

  7. Przewalski's horse - Wikipedia

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    Family groups can join to form a herd that moves together. [citation needed] The patterns of their daily lives exhibit horse behavior similar to that of feral horse herds. Stallions herd, drive, and defend all members of their family, while the mares often display leadership in the family. Stallions and mares stay with their preferred partners ...

  8. Watch as two wild stallions kick and bite during brutal fight ...

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    The video shows the horses began fighting on one side of a dirt road and ended up on the other side, with one horse on top of the other. The two then got on their feet and began kicking each other.

  9. Wild horse - Wikipedia

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    Wild horses live in herds with a social hierarchy, [35] formed by a dominant adult male or sometimes multiple males (harem stallions), as well as several mares and their offspring. The harem stallion aggressively defends his herd/harem against rival males. [36] Upon reaching adulthood, both male and female horses disperse to other herds to ...