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• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What distinguishes zebras from horses is that zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other. They are not a uniform group with a leader. Horses on the other hand do have authorities and followers among them. And humans can hijack the role of the leader.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other.

    Zebra’s don’t like anyone, and they’re not afraid to show it. Repeatedly.

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And donkeys like only one person and will absolutely fuck up anyone or anything that tries to hurt that person or the donkey itself.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What distinguishes zebras from horses is that zebras live in anonymous herds.

    says a lot about 4chan, the penny arcade GIFT theory, etc

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      With how Facebook forces real names, the idea that being anonymous has any influence where or not someone is a fuckwad had been debunked.

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    • Sundiata@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      4chan blocks vpns, and /pol/ is a federal honeypot.

      not so anonymous

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  • stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This makes me wonder… How much of what he says is just conjecture? Do we ACTUALLY know with good certainty that zebras can’t be domesticated due to their nature? Or is it just a hypothesis/theory that has reached widespread popularity?

    I have heard that zebras (along with other African animals) can’t be domesticated because they have evolved to live among humans, when we were still man-apes. But that maybe that’s just conjecture too.

    Note how he have no sources in his video or description. And his comparison to chickens, cows, sheep and cats don’t seem to make much sense. The relation between humans and chickens/cows/sheep is markedly different from that of horses. Do wild fowl really have family structures? Cats don’t yet they are still docile among humans.

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, people have tried to domesticate zebras before and they’re just too ornery.

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    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I saw a historic photo in a magazine once, where some European colonial officers tried to tame and ride zebras

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    nature’s black bloc

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    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just wait until we have overturn the fascist system, then you’ll be first against the wall!

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• BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Zebra: I ain’t nobody’s bitch!

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  • kenji1nonly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jet Li says: You, are mine.

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    • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I do not need to know you. You only need to know me!

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s some accounts throughout history, but humans generally leave them alone. They’re aggressive creatures surrounded by even more aggressive killing machines. So it stands to reason that an animal in that environment would be pretty tough to tame. Image

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It has to do with social structures from what I read a while ago.

    Horses have a hierarchical structure and zebras don’t.

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  • HejMedDig@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What you don’t spot on that picture is the front “zebra” in the back, is a painted horse. Apparently that helped the zebras remain more calm

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    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I actually figured he must have had a more experienced horse along with the zebras to sort of lead the carriage. I know its done with dog sleighs, but not sure about horses.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Literally everything in Africa has evolved to run away from humans, because when animals hear human speech and don’t run away they get eaten or domesticated.

    When you look at a map of domesticated animals origins, not a single one comes from Africa. All the animals there know what humans are like no matter how we try fooling them.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Okay, but what about the moose?

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Moose can’t ride zebras either

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Brother, a moose can ride whatever it damn well pleases. But I’d rather not get into the personal stuff, if you don’t mind.

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  • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In the 1980s, in Tijuana, tourist kids could ride horses painted like zebras.

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• stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I honestly wonder if we actually COULD domesticate zebras but it would taking centuries or millennia. Just like other domesticated species.

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  • Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No. Zebras don’t have a herd hierarchy we can exploit. With horses you pick out the lead horse, tame it and boom, the whole herd follows you.
    With zebras you get one zebra, of you’re very lucky. More likely you’ll get kicked and bitten.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Like African wild cats! You’d just get some hell monster that doesn’t do what it’s told and attacks you at random.

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  • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Selective breeding is no different than natural evolution in how drastically it can change an organism given enough time and the right selections for “fitness”.

    So you could produce a domesticated, tame zebra – but waiting on and favoring the right mutations would take a very long time and be prohibitively expensive. It’s possible, but not realistically feasible.

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• boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One of them is killing a freaking alligator.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Crocodile

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    • boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks for the correcting.

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• mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  looks fake

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  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Spoken like someone who knows nothing about zebras. They’re not striped because of camouflage; that’s their prison uniform, and they are all violent offenders.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s not many animals that haven’t been domesticated because they’re cunts. And zebras are one.

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  • Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Here is the video. The zebra bites around 1:00.

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    • Eddyzh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hm it’s not a fake picture apparently but the situation is definitely not as implied.

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    • redbrick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      crocs are damn scary. They once ripped off an oar from our boat…freaking scary ass moment. Dad chased it off with the other oar. If Jurassic Park were real, crocs are a glimpse of that.

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    • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      thank you for sharing 👏👌

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s crazy to me is that the zebra seems to display no emotion at all while the crocodile literally rips its leg off.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    zebras are known to attack predators, and horses love to bite.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They are also not suited to be riding them, even if they were tame.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Horses aren’t either, and people still do it.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, i mean, Zebras have a weaker back and are also smaller.

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• DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hey, stop it zebra, you have to adhere to the rules of the food chain!

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  • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, the food chain is well preserved.

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• ConstantPain@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Did you ever see the size of a zebra?

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• Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  steps on a butterfly

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