Study | Understanding Stallions, Smart Mares May Abort Knowingly

Study | Understanding Stallions, Smart Mares May Abort Knowingly AOC Sensually Yours

It appears that the first choice of female mares is to have promiscuous sex with home males to confuse the paternity of her offspring and protecting her foal. In the case where the mare is mated with a foreign stallion or is inseminated artifically and then is separated from home males, she is seven times more likely to abort the fetus.

It’s as if the mare aborts the fetus ‘to prevent the waste of energy in producing offspring likely to be lost’, say the researchers.