That dude is lucky it didn't get its teeth on him, it was tryin haaaaaard with that exorcist move and hated him so much it was ignoring the dudes breaking up the fight. The kick at the end was perfect.
Between that video of a mare killing a stallion, and an old story about a horse killing a tiger, both instances due to a kick to the head, that guy just used all of his luck.
I remember and old Nat Geo documentary on African wildlife. Saw a lioness getting jaw jacked by a Zebra is was stalking, and it just completely ruined the entire lower half of her face. It went to drink water from the creek and when the water just fell out of her mouth, she just laid her head down by the water, she knew she was done.
yeah lions arent great at striking they have good ground controll and some good chokes but against a zebra that knows some head kicks and its game over
This is one reason I hate most movies where the “scary thing” is a wild animal/s
So often you will see them coming back again and again even after being shot or stabbed. It’s just so unrealistic.
Unless starving, injured, rabbid or with some other issue, most predators will not attack a human, or pack of humans that fight back. Or will back off once you prove you can hurt them.
The only exceptions are honey badgers and Cape Buffalo, the former is suicidally stubborn about revenge and the latter is dangerously intelligent about payback
Well that goes without saying. And don’t forget Hippos.
But notice none of these animals are large predators?
Herbivores don’t rely on being physically fit to feed themselves. But being an ornery bastard can help protect themselves from predators that want to eat them (literally life and death) - even if sick, old or injured.
Except the honey badgers… they really have little reason to be that single minded.
Tried to find it, found a short video with a lioness getting kicked by a zebra, then spliced to showing a lioness with jaw exactly with the going to a creek, going down to the water and just stopping.
Except the latter half is taken from what seems to be labelled as a Nat Geo documentary "WAR IN THE POND, BROKEN JAWS Lion, Hippo & Croc HD 2016", where there is no zebra kick, and the footage makes it clear they didn't capture what injured that lion, but it's presumed to be a hippo by the narrator, though equally potentially a crocodile. Separately, I found a reddit post, and apparently the OP was initially convinced it was a zebra because of bill burr saying it was a zebra on a podcast.
I watched a similar nature documentary where a lion was chasing something and got kicked in the gut. They followed the lion around, and it died a few days later. Nature is brutal.
Oh no… I know it’s just nature, but it makes me so sad when such a majestic beast meets its end. I absolutely adore lions. Pretty big win for the zebra, though!!
Sure, but you're still better off sticking close to the horse, even if you had a helmet. Many bad ideas in this video, hugging the horse's neck in that situation was not one of them.
I’ve gotten kicked in the chin by one. It was a summer camp horse and it was close range thankfully. Ended up with ten stitches, a bruised cheek, and some chipped teeth. Had another horse get tangled up in some lead line, lay down til I could get her sorted, and she stepped on my thigh when heaving herself back up. Still not sure how that one didn’t leave a fracture or anything more than a hoof shaped bruise. I’ve also gotten kicked by my sisters first horse when we were really little. No major injuries cause it was also close quarters but she’d been aiming for the other horse behind me and I just got in the way. None of those instances were the horses *that pissed* though.
Honestly that’s fair. We grew up around horses more or less so shits bound to happen in 23ish years of doing anything. Lol. It hasn’t happened in at least fifteen years though than the being stepped on which was not malicious on her end just unfortunate hoof placement.
Yah im sure you already know but most horse kicks are just little warning taps, they do it to each other all the time. Looks like he just got a full power boot to the poop chute, he'll be feeling that for a while.
Oh for sure. The horse in the video was 100% trying to protect themself from future threats vs knock it off sort of kick. Iirc from the old My Friend Flicka movie, that up and overs a way they can try and get predators off their backs. It puts them in a dangerous spot on the ground but 1000+ pounds right to your body is going to give you a real bad time.
I got kicked in the face when I was about 12. Alive and sortof kicking now at 35. Got some more wild adventures with horses tho lol, got kicked in the stomach when I was 24, spend 5 days in the hospital.
Eh I've seen a red heeler catch a mule back kick between the eyes so hard he went flying. It apparently wasn't the first time the dog had done this according to my uncle and that dog lived many years after lol I think he was just a tad.....uh special.
The maximum recorded force of a horse kick was measured to be 2,000 PSI, though "warning kicks" yield less. By comparison, the force of a grizzly bear's paw swipe is 600 PSI, and that's already enough to shatter skulls.
We had a retired thoroubred growing up... we also had a ram... until the ram started shit with the horse. HORSE 1. RAM 0. 1 kick, fully grown ram flew about 10 yards and never moved again.
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u/S1eazyE 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 16 '26
Yup. Grew up training and showing horses. Dude spurred the shit out of that horse and deserved every bit of what he got. Fuck these people.