Why don't we ride on zebra, but on horseback?

Have you ever wondered why we don't ride zebra? Until the invention of the telegraph and the railroad, the horse was the main force of locomotion and communication of the human being.For more than 5,000 years, the difference between dominant societies and dominated cultures was associated with this noble animal, which dragged plows, cars with merchandise or carried on his back warriors who ravaged almost all the territories where this animal was present.

It is still curious that being the human being originally from Africa has not tried to tame and tame such an abundant resource as the zebra seems to be and instead, it has tamed the horse, a species native to Asia and Europe.Doesn't it seem strange to you?

Why don't we ride a zebra, but a horse?

Zebras, horses and donkeys had a common ancestor: the eohippus , a horse of 50 million years ago, but they have enjoyed a different destiny; the horse and the donkey were domesticated and the zebras, on the other hand, continue to run wild in large herds through the African savannas.The zebras are more related to the donkeys than to the horses.Why were they not domesticated? There are those who argue that it is an indomitable animal, that defends itself by biting and kicking and that it also has an ability to evade or remove the loop, that they do not have horses or donkeys.

Why don't we ride on zebra, but on horseback?

However, the ass It has several of those characteristics and yet it was tamed.Another argument: the horses have a family structure, if you tame the leader you replace him as an authority figure and the rest of the pack will follow you.It would be necessary to assume that the zebras do not have that structure, which would make the domestication process more difficult.

Let's see some characteristics necessary for an animal to be domesticated : it must be kind and predictable, easy to feed, reproduce quickly and have a sense of hierarchy or family structure, which allows you to accept the human as the head of the pack Apparently the zebra would not have this last quality, which in turn would allow it to be trained and eliminate dangerous character traits.

The wild horse also bites and cooks, but has a less aggressive character and has a hierarchical structure, in addition to being larger and more comfortable to mount.

Why don't we ride on zebra, but on horseback?

It is possible that there have been tamed zebras, not only in circuses but also for activities as a draft animal in some regions of Africa, but the species has not been subjected to a process of domestication, as if it happened with the horse.And that is why we ride away towards the horizon, instead of "zebre".This is a possible reason why We don't ride a zebra.

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