I know that horses are more useful than zebras, but why did no one really try to domesticate zebras? They look super cool.
I know that horses are more useful than zebras, but why did no one really try to domesticate zebras?
I know that horses are more useful than zebras, but why did no one really try to domesticate zebras? They look super cool.
The majority of people in sub Saharan Africa before colonialism where Bantus, Pygmys, and Bush men. The vast majority of them where not exactly big in the brains department.
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They're aggressive, wild, retarded and really hard to train. They do whatever they want but WILL readily fuck anything if you want striped kids. There must be something in the water over there.
>but why did no one really try to domesticate zebras?
Many tried. Everyone failed.
No alpha social structure, ergo no leadership to take over for an easier time taming them.
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They did try, Zebras are just too small and too autistic.
>too small.
Anon, they're the biggest of equines.
calm down child
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How stunning and brave of you.
Because the Africans never bothered too. The Zebra definitely has the genetic variation to be selectively bred.
They look indeed super cool. And they've got nice plots!
Because they have to live among monsters and watch their kind be killed every day at every turn so they have to be as aggressive as possible therefore undomesticatable. Being an animal in Africa must be terrifying.
Because morons never domesticated anything
Because of how they function socially, meaning we can't exploit them to our benefit
>Horses form herds with a social hierarchy: a dominant male with a group of mares and their foals
We can replace the top horse with ourselves and the horses will eventually obey
Zebra on the other hand only stay in groups because it's a good survival strategy (more eyes and ears on the lookout), however there is no social order and it's every zebra for themselves. This means Zebra are naturally unruly and cannot be ridden because they submit to no one: in their minds they're their own rulers
too much zigger behavior
Weaker skeletal structure than that of horses. They literally bend and break under the riders.
Shame, cause yes, I'll agree that they look neat.
It's not that no one tried, it's that zebras suck shit and generally can't be tamed
Didn't some rednecks in Texas tame zebras?
>generally
There have been instances of it but there's a world of difference between tamed and domesticated.
Dutch colonists in Africa also managed to tame some zebras but also found that they just weren't worth the effort.
To circle back to the thread's real topic, instead of looking at an animal that is basically impossible to domesticate, look to the animals that are more readily domesticated like camels and donkeys and speculate why/if the morons underperformed in that area
The same reason no one thought to build a boat and sail from here to here.
The same reason Madagascar was first reached by Indonesians in canoes from the other side of the Indian Ocean, and no one thought to cross the 143-mile strait separating it from the mainland until the 9th century.
by the time africans got the idea to start domesticating things, they already had the mule and got their horses from elsewhere
why would you want to if you already have donkeys?
zebras also have a very different social structure than horses, it would be a pain to keep them.
When was that? 20 years ago?
Climate most likely. Horses originate from North america, which ranges from hot to butt fuck cold, so naturally they evolved to be able to withstand any climate. Zebras have only existed in Africa where the climate is constant. Take them to a cold place, they won't be able to survive, making them impractical to have outside of Africa where its nothing but mud huts and failed civilization
>Horses originate from North america
Why do you insist upon talking about subjects you know nothing about?
Domesticated horses don't but the Equus genus did originate in North America. The anon's point is still wrong because that means Zebras are also from North America, by that logic.
I did a Google search and skimmed the first result. I usually just gamble on it being right so I can look smart on Wauf.org
Pretty much these
Also, Zebras are very aggressive and not at all mild tempered, they have a very nasty bite to snap at you with as well as an instinctive ducking reflex that makes them a pain in the ass to lasso and wrangle, there are multiple instances of Whites taming them but widespread use just isn’t feasible.
Guy went about conquering the Sub-Saharan on his zebra mount, what a badass
> Also, Zebras are very aggressive and not at all mild tempered, they have a very nasty bite to snap at you with as well as an instinctive ducking reflex that makes them a pain in the ass to lasso and wrangle, there are multiple instances of Whites taming them but widespread use just isn’t feasible.
Which is how Tarpan were before humans selectively bred them into horses, anyone who says Zebras can’t be domesticated with selective breeding is retarded and doesn’t understand domestication
>Horses originate from North america
True, this is why horses were completely unknown in Europe before Columbus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_scotti
That's an extinct equine that was never domesticated. The horse, Equus caballus, is a Eurasian species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(genus)
A genus is not a species.
Equines originated in America, horses in Eurasia.
you are being such a retard lol, read the wiki articles
zebras are autistic retards and barely tameable
Very autistic. They're even flightier than horses and take a lot to separate them out from the herd and to get them to calm down reliably. Training on top of that is a pretty big task. Not impossible but not worthwhile if you DO have an alternative like a domestic horse.