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Nice horsie! 🐎

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    CGPGrey: The Real Reason We Don’t Ride Zebras (6:23)

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

        not so anonymous

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    • stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      nature’s black bloc

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      • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Zebra: I ain’t nobody’s bitch!

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    • kenji1nonly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Jet Li says: You, are mine.

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      • Janx@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is this… a The One reference!? I didn’t think anyone else watched or cared about that movie!

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      • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Horse-shaped, but definitely not a horse.

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Punk horse, running IDK chimpanzee firmware?

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “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.”

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    • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I thought the stripes were actually camouflage and they’re just monochromatic because the things they’re hiding from have poor color vision.

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      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra

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      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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.

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Okay, but what about the moose?

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Moose can’t ride zebras either

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti

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  • stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨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.

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      • 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.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One of them is killing a freaking alligator.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Crocodile

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      • boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thanks for the correcting.

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  • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    looks fake

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    • SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • Eddyzh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • redbrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        thank you for sharing 👏👌

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      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • ConstantPain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Did you ever see the size of a zebra?

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  • Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    steps on a butterfly

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