If it's a stallion, this is known as the "flehmen response" where he lifts his head up and curls his lip back to let the urine that the stallion "drank" of the mare to test for pheromones to see if she is ready to breed or not.
The term for the action of a horse raising its upper lip to its nostrils is called the Flehman Response.
It's called the Flehmen Response.
Flehmen
A horse has two nostrils.
They have two nostrils
A horse will flare his/her nostrils when breathing hard or fast. This may be after running or other exercise, or when the horse is in pain. When it is frightened. it will flare its nostrils to take in potentially informative smells.
A horse has two nostrils.
Yes.
Horses have two nostrils.
A horse of any breed has two nostrils.
Two nostrils.
When a horse opens his nostrils wide, usually in anger or alarm, he is flaring his nostrils.
horses have 2 nostrils.
The snip is found between the two nostrils of the horse.
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