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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.

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The term for the action of a horse raising its upper lip to its nostrils is called the Flehman Response.

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It's called the Flehmen Response.

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