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I've always been fascinated by the Eponychium of the newborn foal’s hooves. These soft little fingers form a capsule which protects the uterus of the dam from the foal’s hooves during gestation.
The rubbery capsule also protects the mare as the foal travels along the birth canal. You have to be quick to snap a pic of them as they begin to dry out and fall/wear away the minute that they make contact with the air. Within 24 hrs of birth there is barely a trace of them remaining.
x-post from /r/creepy: A newborn horses hoof
Mother nature has an answer for everything. Creepy little things aren't they!
Dougthepug
This is why I Internet, I could have gone my whole life and never have known this.
StandardDeviant
If you were to take a knife and cut them off, would the animal feel it, or are they nerveless, like antler fuzz on deer?
Willowknowsall
I always wondered how the amniotic sac didn't get accidentally torn open. Thanks!
Stronghans
Biology: Messy, but cool
Jbluberry
Grew up on a Horse farm and always figured Horses were really just aliens.
StayingStrongForMother
I wonder if they miss their fingers...
Dragonbug300
I'm looking this up and apparently it's the same thing as the cuticles on our fingernails. Disgusting tentacular horse cuticles.
tingedwords
I was eating.
ninmonkey
People like me can watch an anal prolapse while eating dinner.
ireadyouremailz
@OP, for fucks sake! there's a NSFL tag for this kind of shit.
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PitbullsPublicist
because it's fucking disturbing you psychopath!
DeinnsBeans
It's makes sense from an evolutionary view. Imagine giving birth to something with hardened hooves. The keratin (skin cells) harden overtime
pwnjones
Think of all the thousands of horses that died in birth before this mutation saved the species. Wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense.
DontTreatSoilLikeDirt
Do they just drop off? The last picture kinda looks like the laminae in the hoof?
ditto12g
Yes they do just drop off; this is structure is essentially left over from permanent hoof capsule forming in utero. Here's a good 1/2
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ditto12g
You're half right. The frog would technically be formed already, but it's beneath this prenatal structure. This is essentially the product 1
DeadOnionSaysWhat
How could I have never known this???
Sarumanandtheamazingtechnicolourdreamcoat
THAT'S ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING TO LOOK AT. Still interesting tho
akaayx
Didn't read the next and I was like, okay what's that, a plant? What no. Stop what am I looking at?! Read it.Still not sure, what the heck..
letuswatchtvinpeace
Learned something new today
foyto
More like ePONYchium!
changescome
Do other hooved animals have this?
harobed7756
Newborn goats and lambs have soft hooves with rounded points that harden within hours of birth. Nothing like this.
statuatorycrepe
crazy how nature do that
DickDastardly404
I'm so glad I came back to check what this was because I skipped past, thinking it was another gross animal abuse post. 1/2
DickDastardly404
As long as it's not an animal in incredible distress, I can handle what I'm seeing. Gross, but not upsetting. 2/2
slitherlitter
They unsettle me the same way this fellow does:
apatheia
Nyla, is that you in the real world?
kinten
Star-nosed mole! They seem like pokemon, don't they?
inkgrrl
TIL star-nosed moles have baby horse feet on their face.
Magpiebones
Or like this?
elnino777
TAHM KENCH!!!
HSVBH
Surinam Toads are awesome! :D
potatokitten
OH GOD WHY
Zepost
Need tweezers -- NOW! Must. remove. oh, god.
buttermyarse
NO
VaemarRiit
I'm now going to have nightmares
tarataqa
then you should see my labia!
agentjkl10
Yes...i should see it...
Dragonbug300
You might need to get that checked out by a doctor.
OcassionalDanger
When?
ThatsMySecretCapImAlwaysHorny
Go on...
OcassionalDanger
When? Not in a sexual, I'm going to jerk off to this, but in that fascinating way one watches train wrecks.
jesusisherelookbusy
Gross
eirik578
I love it!
jesusisherelookbusy
Dogwater
I cannot express how far off my knowledge radar this was. I would never have even conceived that this was a thing. Thanks, OP!
wandergeist
It's funny, growing up around horses and cattle I wondered about how the hooves didn't do damage but assumed they were just soft.
Dzastrous
information: good | pictures: nightmareish
justjessblog
adorifying
ninmonkey
A bit-wise OR won't save you here.
ArtSparkle
this is what i imagine what cold feet are like in bed.
epenna
I want to put fire on my cell phone
LookingForMyKids
4/10 with rice.
vannyishnugget
Kinda like horse fingers
pikachupartys
MARE! GUYS IT'S A HORSE PUN!
RogueFirefighter
Not really a pun when you consider the origin of the word
MrPredator
MikeZuckleburg
So disgusting, but so neat. I don't know if I want to upvote or vomit.
RDAT
Upvomited.
LazyLexiconographer
It must be a little scary to be so timid to be scared at anything you find strange.
redic
Oh thank god , I thought that was some kind of "NEW FOOT FUNGUS! GET FREAKED"
brrrackobama
Oh god. OH GOD!
BlargoBopolis
I haven't even had breakfast yet. Time for some dry heaving.
grambonator
This looks like something for which the Chinese would pay thousands of dollar a pound to make into soup.
grambonator
*dollars
Chimponaut
Never new about this. Neat!
AliBarber
And I never old about this!
Starvegal
And I never middle-aged about this!
ILoveyou5ever
What is that thing called when you are so unnerved by something that you want to destroy it?
Iregisteredtofindouthowmanyfiveyearoldsicouldtakeinabrawl
Being reasonable.
PitbullsPublicist
oh my fucking god i wanna punch, kill murder destroy someone/thing right now. fucking images are fucking me up bad >:( FUCK YOU OP!!
buttobviousfacts
Thanks Obama?
brap
The Internet.
WibblyWobblyTimeyWimeyFox
Abhorrence
magus6796
Look at what you started...hahaha
stotzee
Nope-icidal rage
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Killitwfyre Syndrome
ThatOneGuyAzazel
Genocide?
HeartshineFilly
High Octane Nightmare Fuel?
frykshon
Love
Monochron
That's a good way to phrase that. We need a word.
Luciferyourgod
Holocaust
nekobaka
"spider"
ReydanDeathrain
Democracy
srsfaceI8C
Republicanism.
AUsernameNotTaken
Exterminatus
DAssHLEE
Darude Sandstorm
blainetog
Cheeseburgers?
TotallynotFiona
I believe it is called a Nope, sir.
ArcaneDryad
Affirmative
Trikk
Canada
OffTheFrontRimAndIN
Uncanny
Wildehiphopopotamus
Goverment?
happyenough
Sonder!
PatrickRsGhost
Good, old-fashioned nightmare fuel?
Discoduck
Looks like you needed a "Serious" tag.
MaRask
Common sense.
Thistles
on imgur? "Arachnophobia."
CosmicIdentity
An abomination?
favoriteandforget
Australia.
cantspellmanslaughterwithoutlaughter
Nazism.
imatschoolandimbored
Human nature?
gmdave
Cats
WhiteRabbit86
Waking hours
chiefrunswithscissors
The human condition
getthatcornouttamaface
Damn son, that's some quality shit right there
MahiMahiFreedomActivist
Someone get this man/woman/office equipment a goddamned trophy tout suite.
ithrashanus
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/12/124737/3082089-5093337846-32284.jpg
TheFlyingSheep
Bruh
tripozornike
I finally have a clever comment...
Harbinger411
Bravo sir. That is how we've survived this long.
Rapha4fingers
That was surprisingly deep
IAmHufflepuff
I think I just felt shame
ThisTreeIsDurRunk
The human condition after self reflection.
theboned1
Hate
FuzzyX
I would find 'Malice' more fitting when something you hate can simply be avoided. Malice though is pure contempt in its demise.
ILoveyou5ever
No no, like that thing with the holes. Where you are just so disgusted you have to fucking cleanse it in Andraste's flames.
duckduckspanishinquisition
Yeah, I think I've got that with these as well.
buttobviousfacts
Syphilis?
Rhulain
I'm partial to Deep Road Banishment.
ILoveyou5ever
I've given a box community service. I agree.
Citride
phobia? The thing with the holes is called trybophobia.
YourWaifuIsTrash
Those pictures aren't really trypophobia though IIRC, anyone would be disgusted by weird holes in your body with things inside, >
YourWaifuIsTrash
trypophobia is "an irrational fear of holes". Iatrophobia (fear of doctors) for example doesn't refer to people that are nervous about >
ILoveyou5ever
Yeah fuck that
dildobiscuit
Sure, but that's a very specific phobia which doesn't really apply to this, does it?