How come people don't ride zebras like they do horses?

[disappoint]

How come people don't ride zebras like they do horses?

^_^

 

[halik]

I'm in this thread

 

[disappoint]

I'm in this thread

Welcome. But why the long face?

 

[zerocool84]

Welcome. But why the long face?

He got caught horsing around.

 

[khon]

I know that people think of Zebras as stribed horses, but honestly I think they're more like stribed donkeys, at least that's the impressions I got, after seeing them up close in the Serengeti last year.

 

[ahenkel]

As I understand it they spook way to easily and they're aggressive and get more so with age. Basically they're neurotic assholes.

 

[Newbian]

As I understand it they spook way to easily and they're aggressive and get more so with age. Basically they're neurotic assholes.

Can toy blame them since they are always asking each other if they are white with black stripes or black with white stripes?

 

[Zebo]

Animal husbandry I think is a fail in Africa, they barley have learned basic agriculture.

 

[disappoint]

As I understand it they spook way to easily and they're aggressive and get more so with age. Basically they're neurotic assholes.

Yes but there is a reason they are this way.

 

[disappoint]

Animal husbandry I think is a fail in Africa, they barley have learned basic agriculture.

And there we have it. /thread

 

[randomrogue]

Zebras are not horses. They are nasty animals with terrible tempers. Piss off a Zebra and it will bring the pain.

 

[Zebo]

Zebras are not horses. They are nasty animals with terrible tempers. Piss off a Zebra and it will bring the pain.

Wolves used to break your arm when they bit, but we made them into couch potatoes over generations called dogs. Anything is possible with tutelage.

 

[Joseph F]

Animal husbandry I think is a fail in Africa, they barely have learned basic agriculture.

FTFY, and I agree, Africa is full of fail.

 

[monkeh624]

They've been used to pull carriages.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...child+zebra+carriage&spell=1&biw=1409&bih=475

 

[bignateyk]

Appearance-wise they more closely resemble donkeys than horses, and you don't see alot of people riding donkeys.

 

[Taejin]

guns germs and steel say that zebras have this ingrained tendency to bite that they've been unable to breed out

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Zebras are wild, man, WILD!!

 

[lxskllr]

Appearance-wise they more closely resemble donkeys than horses, and you don't see alot of people riding donkeys.

Donkeys are better animals when you don't need speed. They're more surefooted, and smarter, but harder to train, and more willful.

 

[Anneka]

well i think because we never asked them if we could

 

[Fritzo]

As I understand it they spook way to easily and they're aggressive and get more so with age. Basically they're neurotic assholes.

Yep. I remember in grade school someone did a report on this. They were never domesticated and are very skittish since they tend to get eaten by lions all the time. I think I would be too.

 

[nageov3t]

Animal husbandry I think is a fail in Africa, they barley have learned basic agriculture.

Zebras are also notoriously difficult to catch. They have evolved superb early-warning mechanisms , such as peripheral vision far superior to other horses. Often bad tempered, they grow increasingly antisocial with age and once they bite, they tend not to let go. A kick from a zebra can kill — and these creatures are responsible for more injuries to American zookeepers each year than any other animal...

Zebra and other African game evolved characteristics to help them survive one of the harshest environments on earth.

A pattern emerged. African herbivores were simply too aggressive for human control. Elsewhere in the world, mammals evolved in isolation from human interference — after all, man only lived outside of Africa for a fraction of his existence on earth-- around 50,000 years. When man arrived in Eurasia and in the Americas, native herbivores were by nature less cautious and more receptive to human control.

But in Africa, man and beast have evolved alongside one another for millions of years. Large mammals have learned to avoid — or if necessary, attack — human beings, resisting capture with some of the most sophisticated physiological characteristics on earth.

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/zebra.html

 

[infoiltrator]

There are very few animals that can be domesticated. Zebras are extremely resistent to "domesticating" methods.
Africans have been very good at domesticating animals, both in nomadic and farm situations.
Trying to "tame" most species does not work.
The Cape Buffalo is the most dangerous animal in Africa, with the kills to prove it.
The Euro/Asian Aurochs was hunted to extinction for agression issues.
There has to exist a psychological element that lets humans into the herd or pack hierarchy.

 

[SandEagle]

New Zealanders ride zebras like they ride horses. from the back

 

[Jaepheth]

you can ride a Zorse.

Though they're more temperamental than horses.

 

[UncleWai]

I ride unicorn