Impatient circles from her newborn do not sway this mother from her much needed resting.
This foal is not so much encouraging mother to stand as performing an instinct that forces the need to press the face and find milk when newly born.
After a morning of labor and birth, this mother needs to lie down and pass the placenta. Freed from her internal burden of several months and the bright morning sunshine, she is not easily roused. The foal, a filly, was energetic and bouncy right away and persistently and almost comically circled, nickered, and leaped about in an effort to unlock the mystery of her low mother.
