VIDEO: Horse Attends Owner’s Funeral and Everyone Is in Tears

Wagner Lima died in a motorcycle accident when he was only 34. No one was expecting it and they were all devastated by the news. But while his family and friends were very sad about it there was someone who was even more broken up by it.
It was his horse, Sereno. Wagner’s brother decided that the horse loved him just as much as the others so he took him to the funeral as well. When the horse placed his head on the coffin everyone started crying.

Here is some fascinating information on domesticated stallions’ behavior, provided by Wikipedia.

Some breeders keep horses in semi-natural conditions, with a single stallion among a group of mares. This is referred to as “pasture breeding.” Young immature stallions are kept in a separate “bachelor herd.” While this has advantages of less intensive labor for human caretakers, and full-time turnout may be psychologically healthy for the horses, pasture breeding presents a risk of injury to valuable breeding stock, both stallions and mares, particularly when unfamiliar animals are added to the herd. It also raises questions of when or if a mare is bred, and may also raise questions as to parentage of foals. Therefore, keeping stallions in a natural herd is not common, especially on breeding farms mating multiple stallions to mares from other herds. Natural herds are more often kept on farms with closed herds, i.e. only one or a few stallions with a stable mare herd and few, if any, mares from other herds.

Mature, domesticated stallions are commonly kept by themselves in a stable or small paddock. When stallions are stabled in a manner that allows visual and tactile communication, they will often challenge each another and sometimes attempt to fight. Therefore, stallions are often kept isolated from each other to reduce the risk of injury and disruption to the rest of the stable. If stallions are provided with access to paddocks, there is often a corridor between the paddocks so the stallions cannot touch each other. In some cases, stallions are released for exercise at different times of the day to ensure they do not see or hear each another.

To avoid stable vices associated with isolation, some stallions are provided with a non-horse companion, such as a castrated donkey or a goat. While many domesticated stallions become too aggressive to tolerate the close presence of any other male horse without fighting, some tolerate a gelding as a companion, particularly one that has a very calm temperament. One example of this was the racehorse Seabiscuit, who lived with a gelding companion named “Pumpkin”. Other stallions may tolerate the close presence of an immature and less dominant stallion.

Stallions and mares often compete together at horse shows and in horse races, however, stallions generally must be kept away from close contact with mares, both to avoid unintentional or unplanned matings, and away from other stallions to minimize fighting for dominance. When horses are lined up for award presentations at shows, handlers keep stallions at least one horse length from any other animal.

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