Did you ever see the size of a zebra?
Okay, but what about the moose?
Moose can’t ride zebras either
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.
My grandmother knew a guy who raised a couple moose and used them to plow his feilds
Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti
Yeah they survive for a reason. They’re very tough.
“Motherfucker, do you see the way I look?! Shit ain’t for the insta, that’s for sure. I’m quite visible to you so you have a long enough time to be getting far the fuck away from me.”
I thought the stripes were actually camouflage and they’re just monochromatic because the things they’re hiding from have poor color vision.
Latest theory I heard was:
A 2014 study found a correlation between striping and overlap with horse and tsetse fly populations and activity. Other studies have found that zebras are rarely targeted by these insect species. Caro and colleagues (2019) studied captive zebras and horses and observed that neither could deter flies from a distance, but zebra stripes kept flies from landing, both on zebras and horses dressed in zebra print coats. […] White or light stripes painted on dark bodies have also been found to reduce fly irritations in both cattle and humans.
brb getting a full body tattoo
The truth is we don’t actually know because the zebras don’t want us to:
So, the question why zebras have stripes have proven very difficult and not without risks – Stephen Cobb has been bitten in the arm and admitted to hospital twice. Despite the extra vigour of recent work, the answer remains inconclusive.
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.
nature’s black bloc
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.
What distinguishes zebras from horses is that zebras live in anonymous herds.
says a lot about 4chan, the penny arcade GIFT theory, etc
With how Facebook forces real names, the idea that being anonymous has any influence where or not someone is a fuckwad had been debunked.
It’s not the anonimity that makes people fuckwads. It’s the lack of immediate consequences. A fuckwad won’t get a punch in the face for what they say on facebook, hence they feel they can say anything and be a fuckwad.
“Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it”, Mike Tyson
Regardless of how you feel about Tyson, Truth is Truth.
In a large enough group there is still anonymity even if your face and name are on there.
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.
Yes, people have tried to domesticate zebras before and they’re just too ornery.
But what if we spent longer time doing it? Like centuries, like with most other domesticated animals.
I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted because you absolutely could domesticate them given sufficient time and consistent selective breeding. You could turn them into crabs if you wanted to. The trouble is that they don’t have a very social disposition, so no one is motivated to dedicating their entire bloodline to the project. Most domestication happened kind of on accident as we developed symbiotic or exploitative relationships with various species.
+1 for carcinization reference
Might take more than centuries, but yes.
We have a rescue dog from Korea as well as some neighbours ( not a standard breed, but a Korean Village dog, they basically live alongside humans as a breed but developed their own way). They are much different than “normal” dogs. They are more like cats. Their way on their terms. Like other dogs, don’t enjoy humans much. So even though they are domesticated, they still show the old lineage of being independent. My dogs idea of a good time is never chasing a stick or ball, but finding the highest vantage point at a park and watching everyone. A carryover from watching the plains from the hillside, or something.
Domesticated animals generally start out already being somewhat agreeable. Like dogs hung around us, and work in a pack mentality, horses same thing, cats same thing. That’s why we could domesticate racoons or some rodents if we wanted to.
Zebras are assholes and hate everyone
I saw a historic photo in a magazine once, where some European colonial officers tried to tame and ride zebras
The Cow says: Moo!
The Horse says: Neigh!
The Zebra says: I ain’t nobody’s bitch!
Jet Li says: You, are mine.
I do not need to know you. You only need to know me!
In the 1980s, in Tijuana, tourist kids could ride horses painted like zebras.
Horse-shaped, but definitely not a horse.
Punk horse, running IDK chimpanzee firmware?
Hey, stop it zebra, you have to adhere to the rules of the food chain!
Don’t worry, the food chain is well preserved.
One of them is killing a freaking alligator.
Crocodile
Thanks for the correcting.
They are also not suited to be riding them, even if they were tame.
Horses aren’t either, and people still do it.
No, i mean, Zebras have a weaker back and are also smaller.
That could have potentially been bred out for domesticated strains like we did with horses also, but we never even got to that point because horse hierarchy and zebra hierarchy are very different beasts, and you can’t really tame a zebra matriarch and have the rest of the herd fall into line, because zebras don’t have that kind of matriarchal social system. They are so mistrustful and hard to approach that we were never even able to get to square one.
Other zebras: good luck with that, bye!
I honestly wonder if we actually COULD domesticate zebras but it would taking centuries or millennia. Just like other domesticated species.
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.
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.Like African wild cats! You’d just get some hell monster that doesn’t do what it’s told and attacks you at random.
Isn’t that basically all cats
Yes, but we never needed to tell cats what to do, we just needed them to stick around and do what they do naturally : catch mice
Nature is just going to nature sometimes.
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steps on a butterfly
looks fake
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.
There’s not many animals that haven’t been domesticated because they’re cunts. And zebras are one.
Cats on the other hand are domesticated despite being cunts and we absolutely adore them.
We didn’t domesticate cats. They domesticated us.
They kept rats out of our food storage and we viewed it as adequate enough to not kick them out.
Oh, no. As the scientists of the Smithsonian put it,
“scientists think the house cat is only domestic when it wants to be”Humans can have unconditional love for cats, but the opposite is not true
We only adore cats because of the parasites controlling our minds.
There is a distinct correlation between cats taking over homes and the spread of that thing
I’ve been tested - don’t have it, and I love cats. Part of the cat magic is they’re not really cunts and many people can see it. Also, the parasite doesn’t need you to love cats, it just needs you to not run away from them and to go get eaten by them. If you have a paper showing the correlation, I’d be really interested though - I have a soft spot for this topic, because I got close to a research group focused on it at the uni.
Honestly I was only being snarky. There is definitely more parasites the more cats there are, but probably are not responsible for me finding then cute
I bet house cats would never have been a thing if they didn’t house-train (bury their feces) instinctually.
They are extremely useful and adorable. I think it’s the violence that makes them so magical, like they are extremely cute cold blooded killing machines.
The usefulness is dubious for most house cats. Most households don’t have mouse infestations, and cats who go outside actively endanger wildlife (and yes, that is an issue for humans as well).
I do agree that they’re extremely cute, probably very useful on a psychological level, and honestly I don’t know any other cute pet animals that are as cleanly with their feces (dogs can relatively easily be trained to not shit on the carpet, but not to shit in a dog toilet).
The usefulness is dubious for most house cats. Most households don’t have mouse infestations, and cats who go outside actively endanger wildlife (and yes, that is an issue for humans as well).
I’d say our cats are useful. These are their stats:
Number of birds killed by cats in my household over the last 5 years: 1
Number of birds killed by going full speed, beak first, into a closed window, then tried being passed off as a successful prey: 2 Number of mice killed: +500
Other wildlife known to have been affected: 1 moleCan other wildlife have been affected? Possibly, but we’re confident with regards to birds. And the only other weve seen cats go for are mice. Not even rats, I guess they’re too big.
Most households where? Even in rich modern nations mice and rodents were a problem very recently. Like in the lifespan of some users on this network.
Here is the video. The zebra bites around 1:00.
Hm it’s not a fake picture apparently but the situation is definitely not as implied.
Thanks for sharing!
Did expect: self defense. Did not expect: eventually the croc wins, also all the other zebras just walking by.
thank you for sharing 👏👌
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.
