A Male Stallion Fights to Keep His Harem for Himself 🐴 America’s Wild Seasons | Smithsonian Channel
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A dominant stallion is facing a bachelor uprising, determined to mate with his harem of mares. If he wants to keep what’s his, he’ll have to fight for it-a battle as old as the surrounding plains.
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All stallions are male. It should be titled "A Stallion Fights To Keep His Harem For Himself"
@itsapittie
2 жыл бұрын
The title was written by the Department of Redundancy Department.
@may5588
2 жыл бұрын
A stallion is an uncastrated adult male horse
@virginiamoss7045
2 жыл бұрын
@@may5588 And just for educating the public further, a castrated horse (obviously male) is referred to as a gelding or a horse that has been gelded.
@may5588
2 жыл бұрын
@@virginiamoss7045 yes. Good info I Love horses 🐴 🐎. It is called a gelding. Horses are gelded to keep the gene pool strong. And also helps with behavior., but it does not take the place of proper training.
@etuc_fuzwy3055
2 жыл бұрын
I think it doesn't matter😅
U don't need the word "male". It's redundant. Gorgeous seeing them naturally.
@jlove8445
2 жыл бұрын
I know right? I’m so offended they had to play identity politics in this video. First of all, the horses formerly known as stallions are “Zeerer’s” from now on please.. And the broodnares formerly known as broodmares or mares are to be referred to from now on as either “whirs” or just nothing at all!! Just complete silence!!
What they fail to mention is that the herd stallion would have already mated with that mare in heat and possibly several times. Even if the bachelor stallion had been successful, the foal she would carry would likely be the herd stallion's.
@jujub4553
2 жыл бұрын
And the new stallion would have probably killed the foal 😭
@NikkiDoll-fo4xu
4 ай бұрын
Natural asset Companies policies coming into play 2024 ..wild horses are being eradicated EVERYWHERE and it's being blamed on cattle and livestock owners. Please look into it!!
@bnewtz7492
3 ай бұрын
@@jujub4553False. When stallions steal a mare that's already pregnant, they almost always adopt the foal as their own, regardless if they share his blood or not. Especially if if's a filly foal. It means that once she grows he can breed her as well as her mother.
Now, a FEMALE stallion would have been a real news story.
@austro1675
2 жыл бұрын
modern day trans movement be like:
@austro1675
2 жыл бұрын
@Roxanna Lopez same logic as 'trans woman?' you mean a man? words don't mean anything anymore apparently
@kalfunai
2 жыл бұрын
How many litres?
@mystashat8499
2 жыл бұрын
Stallion means male horse-
@Lara-234
2 жыл бұрын
Mare is the name for female horses..
The stallion is strong enough to deal with bachelor's herd 😁😂
@ubidullahbinshajhan1556
Жыл бұрын
YEAH sTRONgest WIlL have rigHT tO BrEEd . immaginE IF tHIs wAy HumenS Woood DO WHaT WOOd hapPeN Xd
@jatin9897
Жыл бұрын
@@ubidullahbinshajhan1556 🤣🤟
@hel3o167
5 ай бұрын
@@ubidullahbinshajhan1556it will be easier
The life of a wild horse is not easy. All those white marks on the herd stallion's legs are probably scars from many combats over the years. When they rear and paw at one another the legs take most of the hits. Someday a youngster will injure the old guy to the point that he can't run or defend himself and he'll become a mountain lion's meal.
@dominicdsilva1922
Жыл бұрын
do lions eat horses?
@itsapittie
Жыл бұрын
@@dominicdsilva1922 mountain lions mostly eat deer but they definitely eat horses at times. A healthy adult horse is usually too much for a mountain lion to handle but they'll take young or injured ones if they get a chance. Like all predators, mountain lions are opportunistic. They'll even eat carrion if it's available.
@ewarodewicz7577
Жыл бұрын
That's life of a wild stallion with his harem, not every single wild (feral, or just free) horse. It's MUCH worse to have a life of a racehorse or jumphorse, or even just an avarage pleasure ride horse for that matter. Even of scars aren't that visible, since they're from the bit, inside horse's mouth.
@DamnItMantis
11 ай бұрын
@@ewarodewicz7577 That’s not true. While I agree that horse racing is cruel and should be stopped pleasure riding does NOT leave scars. My horses are trail horses and they’re very well cared for. I don’t even use a bit; I use a hackamore. So no mouth scars. And bits when used properly should not cause scars.
@comedy_stories758
7 ай бұрын
@@DamnItMantiswhat is a hack More
I'd be fascinated to see footage of a female stallion!
@zhongxina475
2 жыл бұрын
Females aren’t called stallion…….
@Enigm4475
2 жыл бұрын
@@zhongxina475 r/woooosh
@CherryBlossom-yn7oq
2 жыл бұрын
@@zhongxina475 Did you read the title of the video? Now understand OC's sarcasm.
@cathyheston3029
2 жыл бұрын
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@JoeMama-ot9jv
2 жыл бұрын
Have u heard of Megan thee stallion?
The male stallion is exceptionally rare...... 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wild and beautiful as they should be
@ewarodewicz7577
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Nobody who truly love horses would want them to be slaves.
@DamnItMantis
11 ай бұрын
@@ewarodewicz7577 Please educate yourself. Thanks.
@mirandaholmberg5778
5 ай бұрын
@@ewarodewicz7577 They're not our "slaves" they're our partners, we work together as a team. Please educate yourself
@ewarodewicz7577
4 ай бұрын
@DamnItMantis I've been educating myself for over 30 years. Horses ARE your slaves. You never listen to them. You, at best, try to make your demands more understandable for them. They don't want to be ridden. Pulling stuff while in the team with another horse - maybe yes. But riding - NO. It's always stressful for them. It may be minor when they have a relationship with their rider, it is major when they are ridden by whoever feels like it.
@ewarodewicz7577
4 ай бұрын
@mirandaholmberg5778 I've been educating myself for over 30 years. Horses ARE your slaves. You never listen to them. You, at best, try to make your demands more understandable for them. They don't want to be ridden. Pulling stuff while in the team with another horse - maybe yes. But riding - NO. It's always stressful for them. It may be minor when they have a relationship with their rider, it is major when they are ridden by whoever feels like it.
Seriously, Smithsonian? Who wrote that title and why in the world hasn't it been fixed already?
"The bachelor uprising" now that sounds promising
The real harem mc.
Next video, "Domesticated horses react to the 'Stallion Fights to Keep Harem for Himself' video"
@rhysclunis6252
2 жыл бұрын
You fixed the tittle.
"Emboldened by testosterone" 😂
If the bachelors worked together, one could spar with the "male" stallion while the other s mated with the mares.
@guy8646
2 жыл бұрын
Too much self-interest for that.
@_Chessa_
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve witness this happen many times actually. Not so uncommon as you might think. Male Elk and Male Zebra have been observed to do the same when two males are fighting. Opportunity for the less dominant and less dominant horse can go in. The daughters that stick with the Stallion in the herd are usually more keen to try and seek out mating when the Stallion is busy fighting bachelors. Ive also witnessed male horses mounting each other. Crazy stuff in the animal world. Lol
@lagopusvulpuz1571
2 жыл бұрын
@@_Chessa_ i guess that is a way of preventing inbreeding. The daughter can have a chance to mate with a male that they aren’t related. I saw it in wolves. The male refused to mate with his daughters. The females were in heat & wanted to mate & one saw an opportunity in an outsider male.
@joebloggs619
2 жыл бұрын
....and then they could switch roles... But then the girls might decide they're sick of all this mating and getting pregnant and labour, birthing etc and try sparring instead. With the rest of the girls, since they"d soon be crushed by the mighty stallions if they striped fighting them. So best just fight the girls instead. But where would that leave the stallions after they fought their male battles? Bring stuck with trying to mate with each other? As in "Make Love, Not War, Mate. Peace, Man! You may be a black stallion and me a white one, but we're mighty brothers who love each other.... Say, have you ever had strange feelings, like that you may not be male, after all? Don't be shy. The girls are too busy fighting each other. But you can confide in me... Wanna try it? You might like it better with the lads than the girls... And we also know where the water is... Cm'on, mate. Let's get it on and forget all this fighting stuff... ". .
@maximillian1109
2 жыл бұрын
The issue is that its not the stallions who decide who gets to mate, but the mares. And usually of one or more stallions are allowed to remain on the herds territory, that means they are liked by the mares. It is probably more likely the mares will come defend the stallion if he needs help, than just accept some new horse on their land.
I'm cracking up! Read the title before but dared a comment on it only now. Sometimes language gives way to hilarious creations.
Horses are just cool guys walking around the town 😭
It’s always the Bachelor stallions that like to cause problems…..unsurprisingly they fail lol
Wow, so now we've seen a male stallion. Now get me a female stallion, I've never seen those in my life Is that some new species?
@jlove8445
2 жыл бұрын
Caitlyn Jenner. That is probably as close to a female stallion as you’ll ever get… I can’t think of too many other female stallions, I mean I’m not privy to what “Bruce” Jenner (the Olympian) did to himself precisely, but I can tell you, he was a stallion, that was converted into a broodmare. 🐴 We should have been surgeons you and I, we could make a couple years salary by chopping up some random fruit cake every 6 months and could vacation the rest of the year in the islands, and go horse back riding whenever we wanted too!
@gingerbaker4579
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, the voiceover & you know next to nothing about horses. A wild horse herd is led by a DOMINANT mare who is the ONLY reason why the herd survives. She leads the herd to water, winter pastures, etc. The stallion is utterly and completely irrelevant in comparison. The ONLY purpose a stallion possesses is to breed. Beyond that he has no value.
@jlove8445
Жыл бұрын
@@gingerbaker4579 as a matter of fact I know a lot more about horses than you Ginger. I have bred over 30 horses and have my own ranch full of beautiful horses. You merely watch wild horse videos on KZread and just base your opinion on hearsay. Now smarten up…
@ewarodewicz7577
Жыл бұрын
Stop treating horses as slaves abd then you will understand more than you'd imagine.
Even with animals, the male species still fighting over the ladies …😽 🐈 power ✊🏾
"A male Stallion." As opposed to what? :) :) :)
Yes he is a stallion!
this man sounds like he'd give you mad attitude
Beautiful
Definition of Stallion: “an uncastrated adult male horse”. No need to put “ Male stallion” in the title. It would be like saying “a female Mare”.
@josellers1376
5 ай бұрын
Indeed! God bless you and your family, Merry Christmas.
That camo horse tho
The wild horses remind me of spirit the stallion 🐴
Plot Twist: The stallion is a Trans-Mare.
@suparoo100
2 жыл бұрын
lol
A male stallion??? really??? That reminds me of a horse I once saw advertised.. 1/2 quarter and 1/2 gelding.. o.O
A male Stallion, is that like a male Man? 😂😂😂
looks like the herd got some new blood added
Male stallion? Is there also a female stallion? :>
@djeio
2 жыл бұрын
Meghan i believe they are called
@RomelaCepeda
2 жыл бұрын
@@djeio 🙄
@giovanalaurence
2 жыл бұрын
@@RomelaCepeda oh come on it was funny
@rhysclunis6252
2 жыл бұрын
Meg thee stallion
@RomelaCepeda
2 жыл бұрын
@@giovanalaurence I thought he meant Meghan Markle.
Male stallion?
Why does the background music sound like it's being filmed from a tv?
AMAZING footage !!!
tanks
Wow Bro
Is there another kind of Stallion? In this world who knows I suppose. 😏🙃
Male stallion... Thanks for clarification
Male stallion. Pull their funding. Now. *NOW!*
Medieval cars fight to keep its harem
@puppetseducer
2 жыл бұрын
💀
This is so dramatized and un-realistic. What a weird thing for an actual scientific entity to put out.
We’re can I watch a full episode of this
@tayler7441
2 жыл бұрын
Click on Show More under the description and you'll see the links.
So is the title written by the Smithsonian also? If so, certainly it need not be stated that a stallion is a male.
a male stallion, as opposed to a female stallion! wow
"A Male Stallion..."?
My favorite horse breed on RDR2. One thing Marlboro commercials did to me as a kid is not smoking is cool but cowboys are cool.
I'm so glad it was a male stallion and not a female one...
1:22 “roving band of incels”
I'm confused about the other guys, what's keeps them from ganging up on the one stallion? The way the he was boxing with his hooves doesn't look like it'd be effective against a group of bachelors...but I guess they're horses and coordinated attacks may be too much to expect
@spideyfanw1748
2 жыл бұрын
Nah, Horse’s are smarter than you think, they just respect the 1v1’s.
@greedy_onigiri
2 жыл бұрын
@@spideyfanw1748 No disrespect to the horses, I just thought it was peculiar.
@tayler7441
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe in stallion dueling, one-on-one is honorable and ganging up is unsportsmanlike.
@greedy_onigiri
2 жыл бұрын
@@tayler7441 lol they're animals
@guy8646
2 жыл бұрын
There’s too much self-interest for cooperative attacks.
Fun fact: ALL stallions are male.
🤠
He forced himself onto her
Stallions dont keep a harem of mares. Thats so outdated and wrong. The stallion is allowed to remain on the mares territory since he has proven himself strong and healthy. When other stallions come around and wanna ”apply” to stay on the territory instead, they are not fighting for a harem. They are fighting to show who is the strongest and thus is wanted by the mares. The mares rule the herd, and stallions are relatively low in value to them.
@egusisoup1826
2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure this isn’t true. They don’t “prove” themselves to the mares, they fight off opposing males for breeding rights. I don’t think mares are particularly picky when it comes to breeding, as they go into heat, implying they’ll breed with whomever is there. The lead stallion just postures to drive away potential competition. The lead mare controls where the group goes for food
@Stephan0720
2 жыл бұрын
lol found the woke feminist
@gingerbaker4579
Жыл бұрын
@@egusisoup1826 Unfortunately, the voiceover & you know next to nothing about horses. A wild horse herd is led by a DOMINANT mare who is the ONLY reason why the herd survives. She leads the herd to water, winter pastures, etc. The stallion is utterly and completely irrelevant in comparison. The ONLY purpose a stallion possesses is to breed. Beyond that he has no value.
@gingerbaker4579
Жыл бұрын
@@Stephan0720 Unfortunately, the voiceover & you know next to nothing about horses. A wild horse herd is led by a DOMINANT mare who is the ONLY reason why the herd survives. She leads the herd to water, winter pastures, etc. The stallion is utterly and completely irrelevant in comparison. The ONLY purpose a stallion possesses is to breed. Beyond that he has no value.
@egusisoup1826
Жыл бұрын
@@gingerbaker4579 Did you not read my comment, because nothing I said is in opposition to your statement? But to call stallions useless seems mosguided. It's like calling soldiers useless because the general leads the troops. The stallions job is to be a line of defense, while the lead mare guides the unit. But I'm no expert on horses, nor do I pretend to be. But to me, it seems your own biases are causing you to take a contrary position for the sake of it
Question : Why does a wild horse not need to trim hooves ? Do the hooves do not need to be cut or are they not long?
@christinawolfe4255
2 жыл бұрын
They wear their hooves down naturally.
@Dell-ol6hb
2 жыл бұрын
only horses in captivity need to have their hooves artificially trimmed this is because they are often kept in a stable or enclosed space for large amounts of time and they wear horseshoes, in the wild horses naturally wear their hooves down
@julianaprice6403
2 жыл бұрын
Mustangs odly enough can go about 8 months before trimming in captivity but in the wild rocks and other things trim them down
@ewarodewicz7577
Жыл бұрын
Answer: horses are more than fine without any care or help from humans when they're left alone, wild and free. It's becsuse being in captivity is so unnatural for them they need extra care.
@DamnItMantis
11 ай бұрын
@@ewarodewicz7577 Stop with your PETA-like rants. Horses will never fully be free, and I know for certain that I myself will own horses until I’m dead. Back off and stop judging horse owners. Let me guess, dogs and cats should be free too? Hamsters?
A MALE stallion ??? lol okay
a male stud hummm
Male Stallion??... really Smithsonian?? 🤔 Wonder what a female stallion fight would look like?😁
how edited this is!
No , duh, a stallion is only male 🤯
A male stallion, do we now have female stallions?
There are female stallions? LOL
A Male Stallion? Really male? As opposed to what?
Who are the natural predators of mustangs..
@cobaltcanarycherry
2 жыл бұрын
Puma. Coyote grab foals, attack weak and sick horses. Wolves, but I expect they rarely intersect. Mostly men with helicopters and canning factories, ranchers with guns.
@dustintacohands1107
2 жыл бұрын
Wolves go after full grow elk so horse not much different. But also Puma and sometimes coyotes alligator and bears. But usually not worth it considering how hardy a horse is with good vision heavy hooves pack mentality and mean bite. Probably only way to control these beasts is humans.
@Tomboy2456
2 жыл бұрын
@@dustintacohands1107 No. Horses are prey animals that have been naturally controlled by wild cats like Pumas, wolves, coyotes, etc. Man is not required except that we have killed many of the natural enemies of horses, deer, elk etc.
@dustintacohands1107
2 жыл бұрын
@@Tomboy2456 they overpopulate without humans bud
@MrJeffcoley1
2 жыл бұрын
@@Tomboy2456 ...and, we've restricted the horses' range. If they were free to roam the plains the population would disperse and naturally stabilize. However, within the small area they're confined overgrazing and overpopulation is a problem that must be managed.
The title phrase "A male stallion" is redundant. By definition stallions are always male.
Stallions have better life...☹️☹️
A male stallion? I didn't know there were female ones.
Thanks for the video....but all stallions are male. 😂
Breathtakingly beauty! I live in debeque colorado and have land out by the wild mustangs in the little bookcliffs. I don'tlike that blmrounds them up for auctionsand most end up not well cared for or worse. I ❤ 🐎 🐴 🐎 🐴!!!
All stallions are male. Maybe you'll want to edit your title before publishing next time.
@rodneyparisien1997
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe you want to watch the video before publishing a comment
@patmcbride9853
2 жыл бұрын
@@rodneyparisien1997 "Male" still means stallion, troll. Not one, single thing in the video refutes her comment. And you have no idea if she watched or not.
@badddkattt
2 жыл бұрын
Smithsonian is being inclusive.
@MrJeffcoley1
2 жыл бұрын
@@rodneyparisien1997 A stallion is an adult male horse. ANY adult male horse, with or without a harem of mares. If the male horse is neutered he's called a gelding.
@moofymoo
2 жыл бұрын
mare can identify herself as a stallion!! we live in woke world.
Fire the person that wrote the title for this video.
Harem this world sounds so terrifying,,, didn't want to hear it
@puppetseducer
2 жыл бұрын
Then why are you here
So, I understood that horses can mate anytime, like people, but then the narrator said the female was in heat. Can both be true?
@jamiemoss3633
2 жыл бұрын
Mares are fertile when they're in heat(ovulating). They have multiple heat cycles. For wild horses it's not really ideal to reproduce whenever; they can end up having a foal during the winter.
I never realized that stallions came in any gender besides male... Well, you learn something new every day! 🙄
Everyone there's going to be a bill that takes 90,000 mustangs from the wild and sells most of them to meat buyers all so cattle farmers can have more grazing land.
@NolanStidham
2 жыл бұрын
Cool
Everyone's complaining about the male stallion, but me? I'm wishing this was narrated by Nick Offerman.
Oh my. They are just as bad as a pride of lions.
So is his name Putin?
"Male Stallion". Aren't all stallions male? Odd title.
They didn't do anything. Thats not a fight.
A male stallion???
A male Stallion Smithsonian Channel. Where did you learn English?
.."the male stallion..." So is there a female stallion?
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A male Stalion ????
🤔 A male horse that is intact is a stallion. There is no such creature as a male stallion, or a female mare. Must do better, Smithsonian!
"Male stallion?" Assuming a lot there, Smithsonian. How do you know what gender this stallion identifies as? Do you even KNOW which pronouns this horse being prefers? DO YOU EVEN CARE?!!
@sirmeowthelibrarycat
2 жыл бұрын
🤣 Very funny, indeed! Mockery is a most amusing weapon to defeat idiocy.
@hurricane4534
2 жыл бұрын
Ya Donkey heHaw HeHaw He Haw 😂 love it
@puppetseducer
2 жыл бұрын
This would be funny if people weren't actually like this.
@snowwhite6966
2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂👍
@jlove8445
2 жыл бұрын
This wasn’t a sarcastic comment peoples! Why no pronouns as there should be? Those aren’t horses and mares, those are whirs, zeerer’s C’mon!!!
The word harem is it from Arabic?
THE AUDIO SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS RECORDED USING A MIC TO PICKUP SOUND FROM A BOX... YOU CAN HEAR IT. THE SOUNDTRACK IS FROM THE REMOTE RECORDIST ON SITE. IS THIS WHAT IS SMITHSONIAN SOUND NOW? YUCK!
@guy8646
2 жыл бұрын
Aren’t most nature documentary sounds all made up/crafted in the studio after the fact?
Please use metric system, the audience is global. PLEASE
@joebloggs619
2 жыл бұрын
America is still imperial. Australia is now metric but most older people still think in imperial because metric measurement is hard to visualise if you were raised on imperial. So, the world is not all metric.
@BlueLikeAnIKEABag
2 жыл бұрын
@@joebloggs619 Most of the world is. You can't cater to just the US alone
@summerruby201
5 ай бұрын
It is so obvious that the narrator is American. So, naturally, an American would use the Imperial system because it is used in America nationwide. Most Americans can't convert into metric without Google. So, asking the narrator to convert imperial units of measurement into metric units of measurement is silly.
What a redundant title.
A MALE stallion? Aren't stallions usually male?
There is no such thing called a “female stallion”
A Male Stallion ????? is there a female stallion?
Hes just copying what i do cheat.
Wait there are female stallions?
Wow a male stallion. As opposed to a female stallion? The title is so annoying. Oh god the horse noises overlayed are so terrible too.
Shouldn't MEG DA STALLION be in on this, after all stallion in part of her name, and she model herself after a horse I'm quite sure she's taken alot of that "horse meat men" if you know what I mean!
Calling a band of mares a "harem" is ridiculous the stallion doesn't rule over the mares he's merely there because they let him and they will often slip away to mate with other stallions. Stallions don't make the decisions the most dominant experienced mare does he's just along for the ride thinking he makes the decisions
@avivastudios2311
Жыл бұрын
Is that really true? So they only stay with him because he can give them children?
@PobitroMon
Жыл бұрын
@@avivastudios2311 no.. He stays there to protect and dominate other females..
@wiseguy240Winston
Жыл бұрын
You must be one angry bitter feminist to have to try to make even male animals feel worthless, just sick. 😆
@ewarodewicz7577
Жыл бұрын
You're a hardcore feminist, aren't you?
@billie3811
Жыл бұрын
@Ewa Rodewicz No I'm not "modern" feminism is a joke
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