Why can't they domesticate zebras like they did horses?
It would be so cool to have a zebra.
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Because painting white stripes on black african american horses is cheaper and easier.
Well. They aren’t related to horses. Closer to giraffes. Maybe that’s relevant….
Zebras are way too violent and agressive to be domesticated.
Zebras can be domesticated. All animals can be domesticated if you can control their breeding for enough generations.
It might not happen in your lifetime but it can be done.
Zebras are mean! They live in tough environments, with scarce resources and abundances of apex predators. Thus, they have powerful flight-or-fight instincts; they prefer to flee from danger, but they have violent responses if cornered or captured. They kick hard enough to kill a lion, and they’re savage biters.
They are related to horses @MrGrimm888. In fact horses and zebras can breed but the off spring is usually sterile.
I’ll look at it tomorrow. Don’t want to turn the volume up on my phone cuz we’re watching TV.
A weak back I read in a newspaper that zebras can’t be black and white and rode all over.
I remember on one road trip Dad asked us 3 kids if zebras were white with black stripes or black with white stripes. Drove us kids crazy for 15 minutes trying to puzzle it out!
Road trips were hell in my day. No electronics. Just hours of singing, awful jokes and Dad asking us little kids impossible questions that made us crazy.
BTW he did finally give us the answer.
Well, because zebra’s can’t change their stripes.
Zebras cannot be domesticated because it would be too darn hard to tell whose is whose.
Sorry Dutch. I was thinking of an Okapi… Not a zebra.
Zebras can be trained, just like mustangs ( feral horses. ) We have several wild caught Nevada Mustangs here that have become very nice riding horse. There is a series you can watch called ” Extreme Mustang Makeover ” where wild Mustangs are captured, adopted and fully trained within 90 days. Here is a clip of a trained Zebra. Lots of trained Zebras out there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhlOkEpvFgQ
They could, but there’s not really much reason to. Any function they could possibly fill is already capably fulfilled by horses* and donkeys.
(*The world’s #1 choice in domestic equid for 6,000 years.)
It would be a novelty to have and ride a zebra but their legs are not as long as a horse’s.
@Darth_Algar And mules. American General George F. Crook, indian fighter during the late 1800’s, preferred mules to horses.
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