Watch as two wild stallions kick and bite during brutal fight on Outer Banks road

The brutal side of North Carolina’s Outer Banks went on display when two wild mustangs began brawling in the middle of a road.

A video of the fight was shared by the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, which used the incident to warn visitors the feral horses are unpredictable and potentially dangerous.

“Turn the volume up and listen to the impact of those kicks. Would you want to be on the receiving end of that?” the nonprofit fund wrote in a June 14 Facebook post.

“When stallions are fighting like this they are not paying attention to anything else — people, buildings, vehicles. … They are blind to everything besides the other stallion. Even if you aren’t the target of their aggression, if you were to get caught in the middle of this you would be seriously injured.”

The video shows the horses began fighting on one side of a dirt road and ended up on the other side, with one horse on top of the other. The two then got on their feet and began kicking each other.

It’s not clear what they were fighting over, but stallions are known to battle over turf and mares, and they will defend their young at all costs.

In March, an 11-year-old stallion had to be euthanized after it engaged in a similar fight and suffered “an irreparably broken hind leg,” the fund reported. The injury was discovered when the horse was found standing in the same spot a day later, refusing to move.

The dangers are such that coastal counties with herds have adopted laws requiring humans to stay 50 feet from the horses at all times.

However, the horses occasionally break that rule during fights, rolling across roads into traffic, stumbling onto crowded beaches and knocking each other into yards.

“This is why it’s so important to not only keep your distance, but always be aware of your surroundings,” the fund says.

“Horses can come running out of the brush or over the dunes in the blink of an eye, and when they are fighting they are very erratic, quick, and unpredictable. If you walk away from your vehicle to get a closer look you could end up right in the line of fire with nowhere to go.”

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