Channel: CreekValleyCritters

Category: Pets & Animals

Tags: mustangsarizonanaturecreekvalleycrittersmustangsalt rivestallionhorsesalt river wild horseswild horsesstallionsbehaviorhorses

Description: Don't worry, more mouse stuff to come, it is just that a month ago I was in Arizona and got to full fill a bucket list item of mine: film the Salt River wild horses, some of the most beautiful wild horses in the world. We got back to the Yukon just in time, a few days before all hell broke loose. We are doing the well, the mice are fine, but it is a very anxious time and anxiety and creativity do not mix well. I am adjusting though and slowly but surely getting back to video making. I want to edit the wild horse footage though first before I get back to mice. It is very interesting so I hope you guys do not mind. The Little Trouble Maker: One of the best thing about wild horses is you can see male horses the way nature intended them to be. Stallions and domestication may not go well together but in the wild they are so much fun to watch. Always busy and doing something, with complex relationships and behaviors. This young grey stallion with a black mane really stood out. He is not just very pretty, he is also very high energy, full of personality and very charismatic. He is quite the little trouble maker :) In this video he challenged quite a few other stallions, but what was most interesting is his relationship with a young white stallion. It was like he was playing 'house' with him, the white horse taking over the role of a mare, to be cared for and defended by a dominant stallion. When a rough and tumble game became to much for the white horse, he ran to his protector. The little dun kept the other stallions away from his 'mare' and spent quite a lot of time just hanging out with him, like a stallion would do with a favorite mare. Neat how play is so often practice for adult life :) At the end of this video he gets chastised by a dominant stallion because he dared approach one of his mares. He sulks and then a dark dun stallion comes up to him as if to comfort him. Stallion interactions are so cool, they are rivals but also 'bros' :) Sorry about the background noise, the horses were close to the highway and the Phoenix Airport is not far away, humans are really encroaching on the habitat of these horses :(