"Why don't we ride zebras?" Episode 2

The conclusion of "Why don't we ride zebras?"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• zebra
• zebras
• documentary
• animation
• animals
• animal
• domestication

[bitterballoffrogs]

Just because their are a few animals, normally not domesticated, being ridden or kept as pets, doesn't mean that the species in general is readily up for domestication.

Look what happens to people who keep large wild cats or chimps? A young chimp is cute but can and will rip your face off sometimes. So cuddly!

[medallo41]

The horse just fit the bill "better" for lack of a better word. They are bigger, etc. Horses were the only form of transportation. Would you travel for days, on a 13 hand zebra? Horses fit the bill earlier also, after the horse, we just didn't need another animal, the horse was perfect. Today, we have cars, so therefore, domesticating a zebra, and any other animal while you are at it, would prove worthless. It can be done, especially the zebra, but we just dont need to. Price and demand.

[johnsoncm65]

@NextGenerationREO  And many other highly intelligent people who have mattered greatly to our advancement as a civilization enjoyed a good steak, too. What's your point? You can't cite vegetarianism as any sort of intellectual advantage. There's no evidence whatsoever to make that claim.

[spinkna]

@ZebrasAreAwesome011 exaxtly the only reason is given by one jewish biologist who made up reasons to explain away why africans didn't domesticate zebras. left wing propaganda really,downright deliberate lies at worst.

[spinkna]

actually zebras could easily have been domesticated. the russians bred tame foxes and also in parallel they bred for agression to see the difference. the tane ones jumped up in your lap and purred. the real reason is that africans were not able to domesticate animals where as everyone else was able to. sorry jared diamond your propaganda wont fly with me.

[sdeary1]

@medallo41 we actually started riding cows and eaten horses but then the roles were eventually switched when some smart person found out horses are faster and cows have more meat :P

[NextGenerationREO]

@johnsoncm65 Actually unlike other animals we have the ability to reason and evolve at a much faster speed, you can see this is the big difference a century has done to the planet, the cities, the civilization. We are not like any other species of animal, and actually really smart people who have made a huge impact in our advancements have been vegetarian, such as Einstein, Edison and Darwin.

[johnsoncm65]

@TheSqueenie Actually, evolution gave us the ability to eat meat and it was critical to our development to the top. Meat is high energy food. Learning to hunt and eat meat meant less time spent gathering low energy vegetation to eat. The difference in both energy levels and available time to do other things was critical to our developing additional mental capacity.,

All of the smartest species on earth eat meat. ALL of them. This is not coincidence.

Lesser animals are vegetarian.

[johnsoncm65]

Zebras can be bred to be less aggressive in just a few generations. If there was any real demand for companion zebras, suitably mild tempered ones could be available in a relatively few years.

[btcutt75]

@Tonetare Zebras are asses!

[TheSqueenie]

Wow that was so long ago, people need to evolve and stop eating animals...

[Tonetare]

@medallo41 But zebras are sexy. They have hot asses. Zebras have beautiful asses