Mutual Grooming
horses chewing on each other are often just grooming each other and if they are just grooming each other they should get along fine
They're not nibbling: they're grooming each other. Grooming is one of the social bonds that horses use to become and stay friends. Horses are social animals.
they are grooming/ scraching each other in places unreachable on their own Why do people get massages and scrath each other's back?
it means their friends and enjoy each other. They do that in the wild and in paddocks. When they nibble they are scratching and grooming each other.
Yes it is because it is just normal behaviour- it is mutual grooming, and it builds a bond.
By grooming each other and spending time together.
You can get to know your horse by hanging out with him - by grooming, scratching and rubbing him. Look at horses in paddocks - how are they friends? They 'groom' each other with their teeth!
This is a grooming behaviour that is expressed in cattle that are friends with other cattle. Just like in horses or any other social animal, to groom one another is to be sociable and to form a close bond of friendship and companionship with each other, even within a large herd.
Gorillas play with each other by play fighting and grooming each other.
horses have all sorts of actions like: nuzzling, grooming each other. typical actions are walking, trotting, cantering and galloping as well as eating and drinking. horses also have many actions that some people dont even know about.
Horses will groom each other if they get along. This action looks alot like nibbling, but they don't do it to be mean. However, a horse who goes to nibble at the behind of another passing horse probably does not get along with that horse too well.
To have other horses to socialize with is important for maintaining a horse's natural and healthy behaviour, as well as the environment it is raised in. It's natural behaviour includes grazing among its herdmates, grooming each other; playing in terms of bucking, skipping and running; fear-response by bolting, shying, running away; when greeting another strange horse, they use body language and herding each other to establish pecking order; the list goes on.