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.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month 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.
LongDickJonsson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Isn’t that basically all cats
adb@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
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
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nature is just going to nature sometimes.