Are zebras harder to tame than ancient wild horses or are africans just too inept to domesticate equines like eurasians did?
Are zebras harder to tame than ancient wild horses or are africans just too inept to domesticate equines like eurasians did?
Are zebras harder to tame than ancient wild horses or are africans just too inept to domesticate equines like eurasians did?
>inb4 Jared Diamond and his book are mentioned
What would happen if you locked an adult male zebra and a baby longtail macaque in the same room?
Were there other wild equines in paleolithic Africa?
Donkeys. They got domesticated easy.
the only herbivore that bites more often than zebras are hippos
Absolutely. They're erratic, aggressive, spooky, and completely untrainable. They also bark
It's certainly not the only factor, but Subsaharan Africa has a lot of really nasty parasites that make animal husbandry a lot more challenging, so any potential ancient attempts at domestication we don't know about would have been more likely to be fruitless than attempts elsewhere.
>too inept
they managed to domesticate cheetahs long ago.
>should we domesticate the equines that can give us transportation and milk?
>no, let's domesticate the big cats that serve no purpose other than being luxury pets for rich people
if any Black person bothered to domesticate zebras he would have become africa's Genghis Khan
cheetahs can be good for hunting though?
they used them instead of dogs
iirc they're harder to tame because they don't have a social hierarchy we can exploit like with horses.
With horses man can replace the position of the "alpha" horse and the rest of the herd will follow. Zebra live in herds because it's beneficial for them for looking out for predators, but it's every zebra for themselves
Taming them didn’t work for the Africans because Zebras are dicks
Kinda have to be though if you wanna survive an environment that has dozens of things built to kill you
frick off itoddler (you didn't clear your exif data)
I am going to piss on every shirt you own
>Kinda have to be though if you wanna survive an environment that has dozens of things built to kill you
Europe used to have giant bears, lions and sabertooths.
i thought smilodons were endemic to the american continent
Smilodons yes. Sabretooth as a whole no. Europe also used to have hyenas.
From what I've read Zebras are fricking evil and just live to bite chunk out of you. The only success has been hybrids and even then horses don't want to frick with Zebras because of how mean they are.
but do male zebras want to frick mares?
probably not, donkeys won't fug a mare unless they were raised with them
Only anecdotal experience here, but when I volunteered at a local zoo they had me work with the zebras.
Everyone was afraid of the male because he bit someone hard. I found that he liked being pet through the fence alot, and was easy to distract with food. Even when he wasn't distracted he didn't seem to mind me in the enclosure.
The females are c**ts. Through and through. Always trying to flank you so they can get close and kick you. Never got kicked myself, but there were a couple close calls where they ran past me and threw out their hind legs. Thankfully they were also really fricking stupid, and you could keep them in line as long as you kept them in your line of sight and pointed a long stick, like a rake or shovel handle at them.
That sounds so cool. I wish I could work in a zoo with the animals without needing to spend 100k on a degree.
Their instinctive herd dynamics aren’t as conveniently exploitable as horses, which does make them more troublesome to tame. There were european wild asses and still are asiatic wild asses genetically unrelated to donkeys that no one bothered domesticating either, for similar reasons.
That said, not an equid, but stories of aurochs seem like they had far worse temperaments.
>aurochs
Gaurs will fricking destroy anything that comes within pitch length of them. I think of them as basically modern day aurochs