A three-week old foal born with equine maladjustment syndrome, an autism-like syndrome where foals do not acknowledge their mothers or want to nurse. Photo: TNS
Researchers are trying to find a common link between neonatal adjustment syndrome in foals and autism in babies.
ON a thoroughbred ranch in Vacaville, California, a three-week-old foal gallops close to its mother. Their bond seems natural, but it didn’t start out that way.
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