fossilesqueFeb 15

Nice horsie! 🐎

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Show threadstenAandenFeb 15
I honestly wonder if we actually COULD domesticate zebras but it would taking centuries or millennia. Just like other domesticated species.
Show threadChais
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, if you’re very lucky. More likely you’ll get kicked and bitten.
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Show threadDragonTypeWyvernFeb 15
Like African wild cats! You’d just get some hell monster that doesn’t do what it’s told and attacks you at random.
Show threadGoofSchmooferFeb 15
Nature is just going to nature sometimes.
Show threadLongDickJonssonFeb 15
Isn’t that basically all cats
Show threadadbFeb 15
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
Show threadoatscoopFeb 15

Selective breeding is no different than natural evolution in how drastically it can change an organism given enough time and resources.

So you could produce a domesticated, tame zebra – but waiting on and selecting for the right mutations would take a very long time and be prohibitively expensive.