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Can Zebras be tamed as horses?

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Photo: Thomson Safaris guest, Fain Zimmerman. They're closely related to horses, and they already sport a SWEET paint job, so why haven't we been riding on zebras for the last few hundred years? Has no one ever thought to domesticate these seemingly ready-made forms of African transport? read more

Hybridization donkey+zebra (zonkey) and horse+zebra (zorse) has been a fairly popular for the last century to try and somewhat manipulate the species towards domestication, but all in all, they are wild animals and should be left as such. read more

Using the zebra to do the work of horses, mules, and donkeys was a very popular idea, and there were widespread attempts to do so. One of the most famous of these attempts, and the most successful, was that of the accomplished but eccentric zoologist, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild. read more

MIRIAM Rothschild, in her book about her uncle, Walter Rothschild, describes how, in November 1894, he introduced zebras to his Tring estate and broke them in with difficulty as they objected strongly to harness and bridles. read more

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