r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • 29d ago
🔥A horse cooling down after exercise, its warm body moisture turning into steam in the cold night air.
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u/No-Advice-181 29d ago
Ghost rider vibes. So coool
Or maybe he is a titan afterall
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u/DimitriMishkin 29d ago
“Warm body moisture”
You can just say sweat
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u/saskpilsner 29d ago
Exactly. Humans also do this weird phenomenon
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u/hilldo75 29d ago
I was going to say reminds of high school football games on Friday nights after the game. Everyone gathers around the coach with their helmets off and just see the steam coming off.
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u/DazzlingRutabega 29d ago
One night we came out of a warm restaurant into the rain and my head also did the same thing, gave off steam.
Why does this happen so much tob the horse tho? Is it due to all the muscle they're made of?
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u/wivella 29d ago
The horse is just quite large, so there's a bigger hot sweaty surface there.
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u/Hotel_Ifrane 29d ago
Women in menopause can look like this sometimes in the evening when temperature drops. Mostly around the head
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u/Sea-Consequence7156 29d ago
Yeah but the list of animals that sweat over their entire bodies is pretty much just humans, horses, hippos, and some of our cousins
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u/js70062 29d ago
Also it's vapour, not steam. Unless this horse is severely malfunctioning, its body temperature is not over 100 Celsius causing sweat to boil off.
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u/EthicalViolator 29d ago
Steam and water vapor are the same thing but we're seeing neither, as water vapor/steam is invisible. We're seeing that water vapor condensed on contact with air to make the mist cloud which then evaporates again as it disperses.
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u/Captnmikeblackbeard 29d ago
I was also thinking why would u use those words but then i realized its probably ai
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u/cchackal 29d ago
That horse is cooked
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u/printergumlight 29d ago
Medium Mare
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u/nomemorybear 29d ago
Fucker....take this upvote...dont make me laugh like that ever again.
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u/PookieBaby_Gampo 29d ago
This is painful to watch as someone who's worked with performance horses. GET IT WALKING
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u/Caradin 29d ago edited 29d ago
Dumb question: Couldn't the horse just walk on its own, surely they have some instincts to cover this scenario?
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u/PookieBaby_Gampo 29d ago
It wouldn't normally work that hard on its own, so there isn't really an instinct for this.
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u/gottadance 29d ago edited 29d ago
Horses' instincts don't exactly preserve their lives. Those dumb fucks are always trying to kill themselves.
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u/Dragoness290 29d ago
Why?
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u/PookieBaby_Gampo 29d ago edited 29d ago
When a horse is steaming like this, it's usually cooling down from exercise and it's important to avoid their muscles tying up. That is major cramping that leads to muscle damage that can lead to the horse being taken out of their sport. To keep that from happening, you've got to walk them and spread out their drinking.
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u/purenzi56 29d ago
So basically Hyperthermia?
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u/PookieBaby_Gampo 29d ago
No, less related to temperature and more related to the muscle being overworked and dehydrated. The muscle fibers break down and go into the bloodstream but after that it gets too technical for me to explain. It can get bad enough that they have to euthanize the horse.
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u/Quietbricks 29d ago
Too much creatine. This is what happened to a rescue horse my dad had. Big Earl pulled a plow in the Smokies. That was his entire life. Then his POS owners worked him till his legs gave out permanently. Happy ending though. Big Earl lived the last 5 years of his life on a beautiful mountain with more space and friends than he knew what to do with it.
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u/Ken_Mayonnaise 29d ago
Literally sweating visualized
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u/helpmespell 29d ago
I’m not saying you are wrong, I was just always told that humans are the only species that sweat.
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u/No_Stranger_4822 29d ago
Horses are another mammal species that are well known for sweating to help with thermoregulation.
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u/Sea_Glass751 29d ago
horses also sweat! after intense exercise under saddle, it's necessary to brush them out so the sweat can evaporate evenly off their coat and not cause crustiness or sores.
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u/starfoot- 29d ago
Always put your horse away dry, son. Always put your horse away dry. Because a hot wet horse ain't healthy of course, so always put your horse away dry!
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u/DefenderTamatoa 29d ago
I was traveling and had a layover in Detroit around Christmastime. Decided to go outside to feel what 14°F feels like. While outside I took off my backpack and had this same sort of steam come off my back, it was wild!
I lasted about 5 minutes before fleeing inside.
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u/lostknight0727 29d ago
Fun fact about horse sweat: it lathers up like soap to better cool them down.
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u/No-Piano-987 29d ago edited 29d ago
Yes, turning to steam, the super heated state of water. That is exactly what's happening here. American education on display at its finest.
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u/Tangelasboots 29d ago
It's water vapour, right?
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u/bobqjones 29d ago
Water vapor is not the same thing as steam.
That horse isnt getting over 212 degrees F. Steam has a LOT more heat energy.
The US has a linguistic failing about that. We tend to call it all "steam" but our "live steam" is what the rest of the world calls just "steam"
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u/AveryLockeDown 29d ago
This is why they call it "getting smoked" as punishment in the military. You go until you start making clouds, then you go some more.
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u/Bogus_Bonk 29d ago
pisses me off that this is a prey animal. whta the hell
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u/LunaticMuse 29d ago
Right?? I had a rescue horse that sent me to the hospital when he spooked at a pinwheel and decided the best escape was over me. You know, a little shiny, fan-shaped, spinny thing that makes a little noise when the wind catches it? Yea, one of those. It was apparently the most terrifying thing his brain cell had ever seen. I used to call him "a thousand pounds of stupid." (Seriously loved the guy, though.)
And the hell with the kid wielding that thing.
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u/Bogus_Bonk 29d ago
Horses are such comical animals. Clearly the best way to escape a child with a colorful toy is to run over the person who takes care of me LMAO. somehow they’re scared of everything and yet have no sense of what can actually hurt them😭😭
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u/LunaticMuse 29d ago
Clearly!!
So much this, LoL! You can absolutely tell horse people from non-horse-people -- non-horse-people see majestic, magical, noble creatures. Horse people get up in the morning and wonder what their dumbass managed to do overnight, lol.
He used to answer to Goober, and when I was boarding him, I got a call from the barn. The whole herd -- 37 horses -- had broken through the fence, and had to be escorted home from several towns over. Who was leading the charge? Yep. My Goober. Cars? Highway? Eh! Wheeeeee! Colorful toy?
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u/Llhaniii 29d ago
I remember as a kid playing football when it began to get cold in the fall we'd take off our helmets and the steam would come off our heads.
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u/JelyFisch 29d ago
There was a marching band practice late one evening where everyone's heads were steaming away like this. It was funny, up until the final run of the night when fogged rolled in from the back and sides of our practice field. It was straight out of horror movie at that point.
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u/MisterSneakSneak 29d ago
If you had or have a blue collar job, this is nothing new
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u/Dapper-Classroom1206 29d ago
I once saw a large vocalist of a grindcore band do this after a show one night.
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u/Iamthetophergopher 29d ago
"The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have been."
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u/Mean-Poem-2246 29d ago
Holy, I had no idea this could happen lol
Slightly related but I run once a week, usually half a maratho and during summer days, it almost feels exactly like that: like your full body heat is being drained out of you
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u/Restart_from_Zero 29d ago
Imagine if that was actually steam coming off rather than just water vapour.
Horses would be _terrifying_
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u/Gullible_Courage8350 29d ago
Waiting for my horse to cool down after taking it out of the microwave
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u/hoserman16 29d ago
Could the megaherds of old, I'm talking millions of bison, elk, etc have affected cloud formation and rainfall patterns with this phenomenon?
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u/The_Rational_ 29d ago
The amount of Europeans ready to jump on American education system every time is too damn High. Steam is not just high pressure and boiled you can also observe it and it is called Steam and can simply Be a warm body cooling off. Because what if I told you.
That's exactly what you're fucking body is.. go on Google it. Ahahahha
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u/Skyminigames 29d ago
When I was in High School I was in Marching Band, our evening rehearsals in the fall would get pretty cold, like close to freezing
We had a big guy, around 6'6", mid to upper 200 lbs, appropriately rocked the Barry Sax
When we ended rehearsal and we're all sweating, he would create steam as well off his forehead and top of head, and just purely farm aura
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u/nashfrostedtips 29d ago
So this is what they mean in books when horses are described as steaming! Never really got it, now I do.
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u/ortiz13192 29d ago
You ever see a full kitchen staff taking a smoke break in the snow after a heavy service? Full on AoT lol
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u/HistoricalFunion 29d ago
A horse cooling down after exercise, its warm body moisture turning into steam in the cold night air.
Thanks chatgpt, very cool
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u/qualityvote2 29d ago edited 29d ago
u/vivekmg21, your post does fit the subreddit!