Assateague Horses ATTACK!
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2014
- A group of 4 wild horses on Assateague Island National Seashore Park (camping area). The poor lady, whose campsite was invaded by these creatures, was shocked that they took nothing but a bag of Potato rolls...
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This isn’t an “ATTACK”
Dear Tourists, welcome to Horse Behavior 101(I've trained a few, including mustangs): A. lock anything remotely foodlike in your car (or a bearproof container), they probably won't break into that. B. horses have sensitive weird digestive systems, your plastic, dinner rolls, dog food and other items can kill them with colic or founder. C. these horses live like horses, they speak Horse, which often involves kicking and biting. It doesn't hurt them, but you are much smaller and squishier. They are not afraid of you, but if you get in their way you might get sworn at, in Horse. D. relish the reality that we have wild horses, lock up your food, and enjoy from many horse lengths away.
What makes these horses different is that they are neither wild nor tame. They do not have the fear of humans that a wild horse would have, nor do they have the respect for humans that a tame horse should have. So that makes them distinctly dangerous. While I would not hesitate to carefully approach a captured wild mustang and attempt to get it to join up with me, it would be a riskier proposition to attempt the same thing with these horses that have spent their lives commonly in touching distance from humans and yet have never learned to respect humans.
@@Turboy65 There's almost no such thing as wild horses anymore. 99% are domestic breeds that got lose. Feral, but not wild.
@@morteparla6926 THey breed in the wild so your comment isnt accurate
That pony is named charcoal, please understand that these horses are wild and it’s their instinct to protect their herd. And it is a rule on Assateague to stay 40 feet away even if they are invading your campsite!
There should be no camping on the island to begin with for the reason shown here.
If it invades my campsite i won’t have to worry because I’ll be packing a pistol when I go next month and will defend my belongings
Horses more intelligent then these folks apparently.
Theyre kinda like people...They will walk all over you if you let them
'Attack' why go there if you don't understand is their land ... gosh
954 Tica exactly like I don't get it
THANKYOU.
It’s like someone walking into your house, sitting down and acting like it’s theirs.
I mean I go there I might go there next week if it is open but I did think it’s there habbit and I LOVE horses I still want to go but the horses come up to u but it’s there home I mean that is what this place is all about!
@@Nautical_Parsnip Not really. Those horses are an invasive species.
A nice stallion and his 3 pregnant mares great video
He's been a busy boy all right.
grown man getting major giggles... guuudniiight🤷🏿♂️
I have been going to assateague for more than 50 years. There are so many more people and they do some stupid things involving the horses.
My girlfriend and I learn the hard way.... we thought putting the coolers under the table would be good enough. We lost half our food day one. All the chips, the buns, the bread, the apples and oranges, the potatoes. Gone. For this summer I got bear proof coolers and some steal padlocks
Putting food underneath the table doesn't work at Assateague any more than it works at Shenandoah. At Shenandoah, they have bear-proof lockers and trash cans as well as bear poles. I don't understand why they don't have those at Assateague. Those would work with the horse problem.
keep food in the CAR OR VAN OR TRUCK OR TRAILER
I was at that campsite. The ponies galloped thru camp after dark. A paper towel blew away from me and a pony gobbled it up. There are small deer in the area called fell deer. Feeding them even unwillingly causes trouble. They stand in the road, nap on the beach, graze around in small herds
I'm driving down here coming weekend for my birthday! and these horses are the reason I'm choosing to go to Assateague 😍
wow their fur patterns are beautiful
John Lamphier ikr
The black one is a stallion he is protecting his herd so, I am not surprised by his herd getting in the way since it's their natural habitat so, what do people expect? Go somewhere else where there are no wild horses.
I see Sham and Precious!
They are playing with the plastic not eating it and there was no attack. The lead stallion kicked out without making any contact to tell an underling to move. Common behavior and nothing to be concerned about. I was happy to see the woman toward the end not back away but instead wave her hat (I think it was a hat) at the pinto. Beat not to back away cause a horse establishes dominance when he is able to make a human or another horse move their feet.
Horses own this beach.
Omg I was there a few days ago and those same horses came down to the beach and ate everyone's food! I'm damn sure they are the same horses, 3 females that are brown and white like that, and one brown male.
Just there today. They weren't on the beach.
Horses saying. GET Off Of My Lawn!!
They didn’t attack. They were just curious. As swordwhale1 pointed out, all food and plastic needs to be locked away so that they don’t get hurt or killed, and instead of filming, get as far away as possible. If you don’t “speak horse,” you don’t know how they are perceiving your actions and behavior.
On a side note, choke doesn’t always kill horses. My concern about the plastic (and other food) is that the horses will colic.
If they were to choke on the plastic, assuming it would pass on its own, then I would be concerned about them “choking” to death.
Quite ignorant that you all did nothing to prevent this.
Uhmm.....hate to break it to you my man but this wasn't what you call an "ATTACK", it is called "Wild chincoteague ponies of Assateague Island behaving like typical equine animals" because that's what's happening in the video. In horse society, there's a dominant male and a dominant female and in a herd there is only one stallion (male) and the rest are mares and his foals. And the stallion will always have a lead mare who's second in command. So, the liver chestnut (dark solid colored pony) pony was the stallion and the three pinto colored ponies were his mares. The mare with the flaxen mane to be exact is the lead mare but the stallion kicked at her cause she was in his personal space. And then she chased the other mare away because she was regaining control and reminding the other two mares she is still in charge of them.
Also, NEVER do what those two women did and approach these ponies. Yes, equines are generally friendly animals but they can still be dangerous, especially wild ones. Equines are prey animals and if they feel threatened, they will either fight or flight. And these ponies, despite their small size could still easily hurt you. Hell a fallaballa pony, the smallest horse breed could still cause damage and they literally weigh 100 pounds. So even if tiny ponies can cause damage, then I guarantee that a 12.2 hand tall and 850 pound wild pony could easily hurt you by either kicking you, biting you, striking you or trampling you. And there's a rule on the island to stay 40 feet away from them EVEN if they are invading your campsite. So treat them as if they were any other wild animal and don't approach them.
Lastly, the mare with the plastic in her mouth wasn't trying to eat it. Equines don't tend to eat random objects like dogs. I'm sure it's happened before, but it rarely does. And you could easily tell here that she wasn't trying to eat it. If anything with the way she was flinging it around, she was playing with it. The reason this herd showed up in the first place was to investigate cause they were curious. So make sure to leave your food closed up so they can't get to it.
This dorky Canadian tourist doesn't know what he's talking about!!
I'm not Canadian...
@@LewHalstead where are you from?
That depends...
@@LewHalstead Pennsylvania, go to your own beaches.
they prob attacked that lady cause they was wild its y'all fault
Lol. They unzipped our tent. 😅
You all invaded their space 🤦🏾♀️ I saw one video where a man was hitting the horse.
What horse attack i didnt see it you people are so funny haha 😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of them is Chip.
Sir,get out there and take the plastic away!!!
Hi,Were you at the national park walk in sites?
This is why I don't go to the MD side of the island. I hate that the ponies are free roaming through the beach and campsites. It is so very dangerous for them. I will happily view them from a distance on the VA side.
The horses were there long before humans decided to start camping there. Lock up your food better.
Bahahahahaa!!! Welcome to having horses around! They are rhe equivalent of having 1000 lb toddlers.
poor lady? sheesh- why even go there then.
Somebody fed them a lot at that spot 😂
I think they should limit what you can bring on the island people setting up mini city's and circus big top and tons of trash
Because people feed them. Don't feed them. It's their island. I don't know why the forest sevice let's humans camp and set up on the island. Horses are getting to use to humans. Case in point.
These horses are only trying to help these people not eat such a crappy diet.
LOL, I don't think it's working. Did you see how big that lady was? She probably weighed almost as much as one of the horses.
they prob just want some apples and carrots
The woman were checking out that bbhc
gee ATTACK do y'all know what they going to
No it’s not ok! 💞
Your in there property 💀
Horse are not native to the Americas
@@imaginewaffles1318 please google Assateague island. They are naturally wild horses. Lived there forever. Read a book
C Are you serious? You are telling me to read a book? In 1493, on Columbus' second voyage to the Americas, Spanish horses, representing E. caballus, were brought back to North America, first in the Virgin Islands, and, in 1519, they were reintroduced on the continent. Also it’s funny you bring up Assateague because they were introduced on the island around a hundred years later in the 1600s! I’ll give you some advice don’t comment on topics you don’t know about. Otherwise you will make an ass of yourself like you are now.
Click bait..where's the attack? It's a a shame people have encroached to picnic on Asseateague Island..leave the wild horses alone please people.
It’s well known that this island is inhabited by horses. Why would anyone choose to have a picnic in this area knowing that? Idiots. I hope the rangers are enforcing fines on people who disturb these animals.
You call that attacking don't think so
They were born there. You were not.
Don't mess with them
im kidding about the stupid thing but seriously just get the plastic from them its that easy
They tell you not to interact. Now we never fed them but we petted them all the time. They were and are so beautiful.
such violence
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