Why Don't Humans Ride Zebras?
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Күн бұрынZebras and horses are very similar - so why do we only ride one but not the other? Join Michael Aranda and learn about the history of horseback riding and why it did NOT translate to zebras in this new episode of SciShow!
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@CoughE 5 жыл бұрын
_Zebras are just horse tigers_
@mho... 5 жыл бұрын
thats such an disgusting insult to tigers!
@pigeonfowl474 5 жыл бұрын
Giraffes are just camel leopards.
@refindoazhar1507 5 жыл бұрын
@@pigeonfowl474 isn't their species name literally translate to camel-leopard?
@monkeysue61 5 жыл бұрын
I'm stealing this .. with love ...jk i credited you
@WickedPhase 5 жыл бұрын
delet this 🔫
@jasonakers6538 5 жыл бұрын
"Why do we ride horses but not zebras?" Zookeepers: *PTSD intensifies...*
@Nobody_Special310 5 жыл бұрын
Has anyone tried saying "please"?
@massimookissed1023 5 жыл бұрын
Probably. Shortly before being kicked in the head.
@sophiaruizuvalle2523 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, they're bastards, it doesn't work
@alfredgomez3128 5 жыл бұрын
Has anyone taken no for an answer?
@palebluedot7435 5 жыл бұрын
@@alfredgomez3128 yes... And im alive
@jesuschristusnumberonefan 5 жыл бұрын
jup google: "man riding zebra" and youll find some people that did
@sebastianelytron8450 5 жыл бұрын
Because the barcode would be hard to find when buying and selling zebras
@thominaduncanson8003 5 жыл бұрын
😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 Very true!
@TheRogueWolf 5 жыл бұрын
Okay, you get a thumbs up from me.
@Superbug-tf8zy 4 жыл бұрын
i hate this, i hate you for this joke, but man, is it funny
@chitsb 3 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahhaahahah
@davidsilverfield835 2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@DavidChipman 5 жыл бұрын
"Because zebras are bastards"-CGP Gray
@ducktectivewhitewings9276 5 жыл бұрын
Damn you beat me to it, just posted a very similar comment
@nolanwestrich2602 5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about that video.
@cloudkitt 5 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it
@damien4197 5 жыл бұрын
Man, I was doing other things and missed this video until now or I'd have (future prediction) hundreds of likes on a comment... "I" would be top chicken!
@sophiaruizuvalle2523 5 жыл бұрын
My mind went straight to that
@KeeliaSilvis 5 жыл бұрын
Woah, those Victorian carriage zebras!! I'd never heard of that, and the visual is wild!
@richardbidinger2577 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that one kind of blew my mind. Imagine if we had managed to tame them. The Kentucky Derby might look a little different then it does now.
@palebluedot7435 5 жыл бұрын
@@richardbidinger2577 we can tame them with todays technology
@davewilson7092 5 жыл бұрын
It would take generations of selective breeding, but you could make a zebra that would be a decent draft animal. I'm sure the Auroch we got the moo-moo cow from didn't become a Holstein cow overnight, or even in a century. Likewise, the wild asses we got the donkey from didn't become donkeys quickly and the wild horses no doubt took many generations. Even then, you'd basically have a striped donkey, not a war horse. Individual specimens of zebras were relatively easy to tame. Someone would have to apply the same techniques as the famous fox experiments in Siberia and for as many generations. (I think they are at over 50 generations now.)
@kelly2fly 5 жыл бұрын
Luci Faery ostriches are possible but kangeroos--forget it, dude. That sure as heck will be the bumpiest, whiplash-induced ride you'll ever be on.
@willypeter8861 4 жыл бұрын
Lol Africans couldn’t do it. But Europeans did it for a laugh.
@kyrab7914 2 жыл бұрын
"Partly because we came to our senses, but mostly because we have jeeps now" 😂 I had a legit spittake, was not expecting that from Michael. Well done to him, Becki, and all the writers for that one
@anonymousbub3410 5 жыл бұрын
SciShow teaches me so much I love them!!
@TommoCarroll 5 жыл бұрын
Anonymous bub AWH yeah! Get that learning on!
@KnightSlasher 5 жыл бұрын
_You wanna know how I got these stripes_
@dontknowdontcare1934 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah you wanna elaborate?
@mkmasterthreesixfive 5 жыл бұрын
*You don't wanna know how I got these stripes*
@manrightchea 5 жыл бұрын
I lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained, I lied, I killed just to get here. I killed in America, Afghanistan, IRAQ... I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent! And all this death just so I could kill you! - Eric Killzebra
@dontknowdontcare1934 5 жыл бұрын
@@mkmasterthreesixfive I actually do.
@pedrosampaio7349 5 жыл бұрын
_I met a human_
@SweetTacos 5 жыл бұрын
I'm sad they didn't mention Racing Strips. A zebra racing Thoroughbred horses.. Now that I think about it, it's a hilarious concept for a movie
@helenetrstrup4817 5 жыл бұрын
It is a funny concept, but I did enjoy that movie when it came out 🤣
@heavyrain5949 5 жыл бұрын
I love that movie, as they're my favorite animal.
@kylestanley7843 3 жыл бұрын
It was a very good movie.
@shazaechargois7763 Ай бұрын
I love that movie
@andrewduke1304 5 жыл бұрын
"Their evolutionary History has made them plain nasty" i laughed so hard about that🤣
@matteussilvestre8583 5 жыл бұрын
"We're top chicken!" - CGP Grey
@NighteeeeeY 5 жыл бұрын
i was really hoping someone would say this.
@Richie_Godsil 5 жыл бұрын
"Because Zebras are bastards" CGP Grey
@jamelievilleneuve245 5 жыл бұрын
Ya'll telling me the movie Racing Stripes is a lie :(
@19DannyBoy65 5 жыл бұрын
No, that documentary was just an incredible exception.
@sinklar7946 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah he even said that there were individual cases of zebra taming back then anyway.
@jamelievilleneuve245 5 жыл бұрын
@@sinklar7946 my comment was a joke. The movie is about a talking zebra who's dream is to race like horses
@Tayl0r_ 5 жыл бұрын
I LOVE THAT MOVIEEE
@maxthompson9113 3 жыл бұрын
I haven't thought about that movie in years and now I want to watch it ASAP
@SciShow 5 жыл бұрын
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@colinp2238 5 жыл бұрын
If all your hosts use these apps as you claim there would be no time to make the videos.
@alichi101 5 жыл бұрын
All those arguments and only one rings true. 'Because we have jeeps now' Given that those victorian era folks managed to tame them enough to ride and pull carriages straight from the wild it is definitely possible. Its just... horses (and camels) got literally hundreds of generations of work behind them. Given the difficulty and costs involved it was simply cheaper to go with the jeep (horse). Concerning the weak back not suitable for riding? We spend literally thousands of years having horses pull chariots because they were too weak and small. As to why it wasn't domesticated way in the past? Probably a mix of the mentioned temper and just seeing it as another foodanimal to hunt. Thou dangerous kicks alone is definitely not the sole reason as to why our ancestors didn't domesticate it. We did domesticate the donkey (can kick forwards AND backwards!) and the ostrich (peck your eyes and disembowel you with it's talons!) after all.
@Trondtravle 5 жыл бұрын
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@MrPiquo 5 жыл бұрын
I hope this is a quick question for you SciShow. If we possibly figured out a working equation for the theoretical physics equation the "Theory of Everything," where would you recommend I go to share that and have it tested?
@Panj0 5 жыл бұрын
@@MrPiquo If you have to ask that question , not to mention in a youtube comment, you almost certainly don't have a working equation lol.
@MercyTN581 5 жыл бұрын
Because CGP Grey said so
@itsonlyafleshwound9024 5 жыл бұрын
Because Zebras are bastards
@weldonspivey5708 5 жыл бұрын
Who is this bloke? Never heard of him.
@magnuspeacock5857 5 жыл бұрын
@@weldonspivey5708 Go to CGP Grey's channel *now* please.
@BoostedMonkey05 5 жыл бұрын
@Krok Krok he's always open for debate you silly moo. And just because you don't agree with everything a person says doesn't mean he's a pseudo intellectual. It's like calling Bill Nye a pseudo intellectual because he doesn't believe the earth is flat.
@doctaflo 5 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Dee , don't bite; pretty sure he's trolling you
@helenetrstrup4817 5 жыл бұрын
If American zookerpers are hurt the most by zebras, then hire one that isn't American 😇
@shatnermohanty6678 5 жыл бұрын
Helene Trøstrup 🤣🤣🤣 good one 👍👍
@scottmantooth8785 5 жыл бұрын
dua... or maybe the zebras just need anger management classes or really strong sedatives
@furatceylan8 5 жыл бұрын
@@scottmantooth8785 or the fking zookeepers ought not go into the zebra hatch when there is a pissed off zebra in there ... in other words, if you don´t wanna get stung, don´t swat at wasps
@gunfighterdrummer 5 жыл бұрын
Drums: da da spshhhhh!
@frank124c 5 жыл бұрын
You are a natural born lawyer.
@HTPCYMC 5 жыл бұрын
The Zorse is my spirit animal.
@dontknowdontcare1934 5 жыл бұрын
First reply
@paololujan1169 5 жыл бұрын
Puto pero no le gusta que lo monten(?)
@trashcat3000 5 жыл бұрын
Mine's Chevy Chase
@21stcenturyjeronimo35 5 жыл бұрын
So you want a South African Cowboy to ride you just come out the closet bro it's 2019 already
@GrexTheCrabasitor 5 жыл бұрын
Wow you watched the video
@TheRealFlenuan 5 жыл бұрын
Lmao all the comments are just referencing CGP Grey
@emmanuelsanchez9303 5 жыл бұрын
I'm happy to see Michael hosting again. I had not seen him in a while and I thought he was no longer at Scishow
@randallpcrittenden 5 жыл бұрын
Why have I never heard of Zorses before?! I must now search for adorable images of them!
@sinenomine8101 5 жыл бұрын
They have some at Chester zoo!
@nidohime6233 5 жыл бұрын
There are zebroids (half donkey/half zebra) too.
@colinp2238 5 жыл бұрын
@@nidohime6233 Wouldn't that be a zonkey?
@nidohime6233 5 жыл бұрын
@@colinp2238 I heard there are called zebroids, but I guess its depends of the parents, like how liger are called like that if the father's cub is a lion while the mother is a tigress, and if its backwards is called a tigon.
@wewemcrhyne 5 жыл бұрын
I saw one at a zoo in Kentucky and it was as mean as a zebra.
@johnathanarcher6999 5 жыл бұрын
This is one of the funniest videos you guys have put out. I loved all the special animations it made it so fun to watch!
@SpektralJo 5 жыл бұрын
Because of the great war between Ponies and Zebras which resulted in Equestria becoming a wasteland...
@melvinshine9841 5 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I'd be interested in that story.
@sophiaruizuvalle2523 5 жыл бұрын
I thought that the My Little Pony was manifesting itself for a second there
@ccluci8848 5 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know a animal was made after a zebra crossing
@victor9 5 жыл бұрын
As an African I Remeber always pondering this question and nobody really seem to have an answer but explain in examples. You can have a dog but not a wild dog, a goat not a bush buck, a cow not a Buffalo (at list not the part I'm from). Good to have a good cietific explanation. Cgp grey has a similar explanation
@pabliskimitador 2 жыл бұрын
People in other parts of the world have buffalos like cows
@LacyJacy 5 жыл бұрын
YES IVE MISSED YOU IN THE EPISODES !!
@reneestewart2518 4 жыл бұрын
Leave the horses alone you know do you want to get kicked or do you want to live
@crystalbell1598 5 жыл бұрын
I love this channel! Thank you so much Sci Show.
@Sara-ti7he 5 жыл бұрын
This video is why I subscribed to your channel. So informative, interesting and funny!
@duomaxwell2293 5 жыл бұрын
This makes me want to watch "Racing Stripes" again, it's a 2005 movie about a horse trainer training a zebra for the Kentucky open..
@xck 5 жыл бұрын
I assumed they were just wild and untamed And didn’t want you
@dontknowdontcare1934 5 жыл бұрын
Thats what your mom said
@armoredwings4182 5 жыл бұрын
That's the Hollywood bonding trope where people unrealistically train feral Mustangs with sugar cubes because "bond" ((*COUGH*flicka*COUGH*)) Nope. Zebras just hate everything and horses are scared of everything. It's easier to get a horse to not be scared than it is to get a zebra to not hate.
@Warrentheo 5 жыл бұрын
First Ad that I am actually considering in a long while, good job👍
@EASJR1991 5 жыл бұрын
There's an experiment that's been going on since the 1970s we're Russia scientist domesticated foxes by determining which foxes where are the least aggressive towards human and then choosing those foxes to breed. Would it be possible to determine which zebras are the least tame and then breed those in order to domesticate them? I'm sure the ethics of that is a completely different question.
@jpe1 5 жыл бұрын
Ellis Sutton the point of the video was that zebras are not suitable for domesticating, the Victorians didn’t fail because they don’t know animal husbandry (they were experts, just look at all the dog, cat, rabbit, pigeon, pig, sheep, etc breeds that came out back then) they failed because zebras can’t be domesticated. Sure, with CRISPR and trans-genetic engineering we could perhaps create a zebra-like animal that is domesticated, but no ordinary amount of selective breeding will create a domesticated zebra. The foxes that Soviet researcher Dmitry Belyayev started an experiment to domesticate back in 1959 were a sort-of success because foxes exhibit several traits that make them amenable to domestication, and even then the success was mixed. Today the offspring are appropriately tame (almost dog-like in their behavior) but they (mostly) don’t look like foxes anymore, instead look more like dogs.
@shatnermohanty6678 5 жыл бұрын
Ellis Sutton you know I was about to make the same point about the Soviet fox experiment. the dog is a product of human selected breeding. I was surprised when I learnt how the Russians succeeded with the fox,an animal which is not a very social creature in the wild (a point generally cited as to why dogs became pets ; because it sees it's owners as members of it's pack) the fox has been generally seen as an animal so smart it will outwit any other creature. in a Russian book by Olga Perovskaya translated to English as "Kids and Cubs" , the author mentions that she as a child had a pet fox who couldn't keep still for a moment, and always on the lookout for mischief, so much so they had to give it away to a mini zoo at their school. If such an animal can be made docile by the Russian project then a zebra domestication experiment on similar lines is definitely worth pursuing
@violet-trash 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, but horses took thousands of years to become what they are today, why try that again when we already have horses? It's far more efficient to accept that a few horses are going to get sick.
@palebluedot7435 5 жыл бұрын
@@violet-trash no all will horses get sick And your cows Ask any force invading africa pre 1700 lol romans came over with horses once ..... Settled in a nice place by the water lmao
@violet-trash 5 жыл бұрын
@@palebluedot7435 Are you saying there are no domestic horses in Africa?
@ahtyngtyng 5 жыл бұрын
“we have jeeps now”
@Taikamuna 5 жыл бұрын
Because we dont have zebras over here
@the5thaxiom807 5 жыл бұрын
Hey, you're that domino guy.
@joesjunkyard935 5 жыл бұрын
Quit going in the comment section of every video
@zairicullen 5 жыл бұрын
Totally can relate 😂
@myrinsk 3 жыл бұрын
Your verified
@DistortedBird 5 жыл бұрын
There are so many things that I did not know in this video, even though I thought I knew a decent amount about zebras. Good job!
@Persiancouplelife 5 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you guys have slowed down your speech. I’m glad I decided to give your clip a chance again. It is extremely frustrating to try to focus on a speech with no breaks that is fast and full of info.
@kwek2243 5 жыл бұрын
dear scishow, I wish you cover the Philippine Eagle too because its very underrated and people should know that this rare specie does exist=)
@alichi101 5 жыл бұрын
All those arguments and only one rings true. 'Because we have jeeps now' Given that those victorian era folks managed to tame them enough to ride and pull carriages straight from the wild it is definitely possible. Its just... horses (and camels) got literally hundreds of generations of work behind them. Given the difficulty and costs involved it was simply cheaper to go with the jeep (horse). Concerning the weak back not suitable for riding? We spend literally thousands of years having horses pull chariots because they were too weak and small. As to why it wasn't domesticated way in the past? Probably a mix of the mentioned temper and just seeing it as another foodanimal to hunt. Thou dangerous kicks alone is definitely not the sole reason as to why our ancestors didn't domesticate it. We did domesticate the donkey (can kick forwards AND backwards!) and the ostrich (peck your eyes and disembowel you with it's talons!) after all.
@timperry6948 5 жыл бұрын
Taming a single animal is not the same thing as domesticating an entire breed.
@alichi101 5 жыл бұрын
@@timperry6948 And? If they can be reliable tamed then their disposition isn't as bad as some want to suggest. Those that then say that zebras are more nervous and panic more easily than horses again ignore that the horse has thousands of years of domestication behind it. Domestication is selective breeding. Even if those victorian era zebratamers had kept at it and tried to domesticate the zebras to this day, that would only be 200 years of work. The domesticated horse goes back well over 5000 years! Again, the only argument that rings true is 'Because we have jeeps now'. No one is going to put up the effort to domesticate the zebra since we already have the horse. It would be the work of several HUMAN generations to get a zebra anywhere close to modern horses in disposition and ability. Also, our ancestors didn't start keeping horses as a work animal but kept them as a food animal long before they got any work out of them. In other words, generations of work before even trying to do more than herd them.
@noviedeos 5 жыл бұрын
alichi101 your ancestors spent thousands of years working with horses... and zebras evolved with humans for millions of years but yeah, those 5k years is what did it for the horses
@alichi101 5 жыл бұрын
@@noviedeos ...yes? Those five thousand years is what did it for the horses.
@Konsistori 5 жыл бұрын
@@noviedeos Turns out 5000 years of actively domesticating an animal does more to domesticate an animal than one million years of not trying to domesticate an animal.
@selinamason8119 5 жыл бұрын
It's an interesting topic I've never thought about it. Thanks Scishow!
@mysteepulcine2510 5 жыл бұрын
I met a tame zebra when I was in Zambia. We were having our afternoon tea outside and he walked right up and licked the jam off my toast. The owner of the house said his name was frederick, and he basically tamed himself and even came inside sometimes.
@LeafseasonMagbag 5 жыл бұрын
We just need to selectively breed them for a few thousand years.
@shatnermohanty6678 5 жыл бұрын
Leafseason Magbag exactly all the domesticated animals we see around us have taken us hundreds (and in most cases thousands of years ) to reach this point.
@LeafseasonMagbag 5 жыл бұрын
@@shatnermohanty6678 Or just give them a hundred years of genetic modification and have zebras that don't ever get tired, have tough lizard skin, clawed feet, and who can eat anything even vaguely organic.
@shatnermohanty6678 5 жыл бұрын
Leafseason Magbag 😁😁😁
@lif3andthings763 3 жыл бұрын
They dont have the same social structure as Horses do as well they wont see you as the leader of the heard because they dont have those.
@OtakuUnitedStudio 3 жыл бұрын
@@LeafseasonMagbag Selective breeding IS genetic modification.
@hoaithunguyen4473 4 жыл бұрын
In Vietnamese, zebra literally means stripped horse
@urishima 5 жыл бұрын
The first image with the zebra jumping with the guy on it's back is perfect. Both the Zebra's and the guy's expression say 'This has all gone horribly wrong!'. It may be the low resolution of the old picture, but it really looks like his eyes are wide open in panic.
@TrytheGreenOne 5 жыл бұрын
you're my favorite sci-show speaker
@tfsheahan2265 5 жыл бұрын
Consider the Russian experiment with wild foxes to be bred for pelts. When they separated the deciles from the aggrieves, and bred them to each other, they found that the deciles started looking and acting more like dogs, floppy ears and all. Is it possible we could do the same with zebras?
@drewbydoo8945 Жыл бұрын
Theoretically, I feel like we could do that with any animal if given enough time and resources.
@snowcat3116 5 жыл бұрын
I have never thought of a Jeep for a zebra replacement...
@VeralBoni 5 жыл бұрын
Ain't gonna lie, that sponsorship transition was smooth!
@sallyphilpin1104 5 жыл бұрын
The zebra is the symbol for rare genetic conditions such as Ehlers Danlos syndrome. Many people with the condition have a tattoo of a zebra with the quote 'My joints are more sociable as they go out more than the rest of me'.
@jkjoegunz 5 жыл бұрын
I'm kind of surprised that you didn't bring up the social hierarchy of horses vs zebras, as that is arguably the biggest reason horses are generally more tameable than zebras. Or their whole ducking reflex.
@dallasoch4040 5 жыл бұрын
What about raising them from babies tame to ride or pull? I wouldn't went to try it with a full grown adult!
@KenoshaKicker 4 жыл бұрын
Really hoped he was gonna say Started off on the wrong hoof
@HeatherRuffin 5 жыл бұрын
This was wonderful
@AoyagiAichou 5 жыл бұрын
That zebra frown animation is quite fitting, as well as amusing. As far as I know, unlike horses, zebras are individualistic and smart (also they're mean wankers).
@N1teLlte 5 жыл бұрын
Speaking of things getting the upper hand: Emus.
@fabusquish.undercover 5 жыл бұрын
I always just want to hug Micheal He looks really huggable 😅
@Stevenewmansa 5 жыл бұрын
I was an extra in a movie called Racing Stripes, about a zebra being raced in a house race. So I've actually seen a person ride a zebra in real life. It was awkward AF and it threw her to the ground once as well.
@sicemdawgs47 5 жыл бұрын
Ok I see your point but I rode a zebra in red dead so.... How do you explain that?
@nonyabizz9390 5 жыл бұрын
I find these reasons to be more excuses than anything else. Nothing is domesticated over night. If, over hundreds of years, Zebras were bred for both size and non-aggressiveness, you could have a domesticated Zebra you could ride. A domestic horse is not the same thing as the wild horse it originated from, after all. And even if horses had traits that made them easier to domesticate, that does not mean zebras could not be domesticated. We ride horses, and not zebra, because human culture devoted many multiple generations into breeding them taming them, and understanding them. A similar effort has simply never been applied to zebra. You may as well ask "why do we have pet wolves, but not pet foxes?" And the answer is simple. We don't. We have dogs, the result of hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of years of controlled breeding and domestication. Genetically, yes, all domestic dogs are from the gray wolf, but they are not gray wolves. Well, breeding experiments have shown that foxes can be bred into a domestic form. Admittedly, domestic foxes are not dogs, just as a domestic zebra would not be a horse, but it is a valid proof of concept, and shows that a fox can be domesticated over generations, which had not been thought possible before. The zebra, if bred for the right traits, over multiple generations, could be domesticated. The wild horse, and the wolf, had to undergo such changes. And the wild horse and the wolf were remarkably receptive to it. But the fox could be domesticated, and so could the zebra. There is nothing inherent and unchanging in their nature that prevents it. That is why we don't ride zebra.
@palebluedot7435 5 жыл бұрын
The question is why didnt afircans or boers do it Answer overallbits not cost effective Zimbabwe said would be to expensive and be very harsh since zebra evolved very strong genetic aggressions
@lyreparadox 5 жыл бұрын
I'd only modify by saying hundreds of generations rather than years. But basically, you're absolutely right.
@JcoleMc Жыл бұрын
@@palebluedot7435 Since when have we ever cared about morals on animals ?
@palebluedot7435 Жыл бұрын
@@JcoleMc It’s very commons for natives before modern capitalism to treat animals morally when possible Most cultures give thanks to dying animals we eat
@wealllovemerylstreep7037 5 жыл бұрын
The streak is back 😍😍
@DefiningLiz 5 жыл бұрын
I have always wondered this!
@sinistersweet5236 5 жыл бұрын
As CGP Grey once said: "Because Zebra, are bastards."
@-4subscriberswithahammerad521 5 жыл бұрын
Because zebras were ticked that we kept trying to eat them
@palebluedot7435 5 жыл бұрын
Ya they avoid humans
@cookiesnz 5 жыл бұрын
Michael is looking so good!! Someone’s been bulking out 💪🏼🔥🔥🔥
@919ben919 5 жыл бұрын
ive rode zorses before. my friend boyd has ten. my favorite is half clidsdale. what a beast to behold!
@jessicap4998 5 жыл бұрын
A SciShow episode on just *how bad* the training of a zebra goes would be very educational. Video clips of people getting told off by prey animals are great.
@CharlesTheClumsy 5 жыл бұрын
CGP Grey also did an episode about this. Both videos are great!
@SlyPearTree 5 жыл бұрын
I saw a documentary once about a young woman who had been abandoned in the jungle as a kid, she was named Sheena and looked just like Tanya Roberts, I'm quite sure she rode a zebra. I remember other documentaries with a guy called Tarzan who was also raised by wild beasts. Netflix currently have another documentaries about a boy called Mowgli to which the same thing happened. Maybe parents shouldn't bring their kids in the jungle.
@KarlBunker 5 жыл бұрын
In Sheena (1984, starring Tanya Roberts and, ha-ha, probably not a documentary) they used a horse with stripes painted on it. They couldn't risk Ms Roberts getting her million-dollar ass kicked half way across Africa.
@demonbuddy1 5 жыл бұрын
Normally, I would just be yelling "That's not Hank!", but it was such a neat and well done story that I can't bag on the host. This time. :-)
@ccluci8848 5 жыл бұрын
Why can’t we wake up those sleeping horses
@kailen98 5 жыл бұрын
CGP Gray already did this.
@Sonicgott 5 жыл бұрын
For some reason, I found this episode incredibly amusing.
@solitairecatnaps4444 Жыл бұрын
Loved that movie!
@darylbenson9682 5 жыл бұрын
We don't ride Zebras because we ride horses. We don't eat horses because we eat cows. We didn't domesticate Hyenas because we domesticated wolves. Rewind the clock and shuffle the deck, the reverse could be true for any.
@ZombieBarioth 5 жыл бұрын
Not quite. Historically horses have been eaten, as have dogs, but because they're considered companion animals and not just for food/utility it fell out of favor. Time and place have little to do with it either, we domesticated them because their natural traits proved useful. Wolves' circling behavior for example, which is used by shepards to herd livestock. Their particular social behavior made them easier to work with.
@Bluestar12 5 жыл бұрын
Asking the real questions.
@mabob1913 5 жыл бұрын
If I recall correctly, zebras also have a ducking reflex that makes it almost impossible for them to be lassoed.
@yoavsigler4457 Жыл бұрын
This is like the most specific skillshare ad I've ever seen
@robtk3 5 жыл бұрын
"Humans and zebras have spent millions of years together..." Humans... millions of years...? Ummm, no.
@OtakuUnitedStudio 3 жыл бұрын
Depends on your definition of human. Modern Homo sapiens? No. Other hominids? Yes.
@blondbraid7986 3 жыл бұрын
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Successfully hunting large animals is still pretty new for hominids, evolutionary speaking. Our closest relatives, chimps, and bonobos only rarely hunt, and when they do, it's always animals much smaller than themselves.
@thedude7319 5 жыл бұрын
Something something grey
@vedal1358 5 жыл бұрын
something something bastards
@ecoKady 5 жыл бұрын
Not sure who wrote this, but I laughed more than I have during SciShow in a long time. Kudos.
@BryanWicks 5 жыл бұрын
I love Zebra. They are easily one of my all time favorite bands! :D All kidding aside (but seriously, I do love the band), the topic of humans being unable to tame and ride zebras is really fascinating. Thanks for a great presentation of the subject, and kudos for *finally* giving me a compelling reason to check out Skillshare. I'll have more success taming my email than I would a zebra.
@jan_kisan 5 жыл бұрын
so much based on post-knowledge and modernising. the horses of the past - were they as calm and big, "built for riding"? kinda like the domestic banana is "built for eating", as some claim)) the truth is, those horses we domesticated were also damn wild and aggressive, and they had also been hunted by predators a lot. not African predators, yeah, but how do we prove those predators caused less aggression in tarpans and przewalskiis?
@palebluedot7435 5 жыл бұрын
Because they didnt evolve to avoid us and becuase every african predator is more sucessful the n its non african counterpart Prz horses even wild ones dont seem to have a genetic fear of humans and dont know we can throw things Zebras do they evolved some traits to avoid spears
@JustinY. 5 жыл бұрын
Zebras < War horses
@FocusMrbjarke 5 жыл бұрын
first reply to justin y comment
@-Teus- 5 жыл бұрын
Is this like you job or something?
@dontknowdontcare1934 5 жыл бұрын
This no joke wasnt funny
@kovoc7135 5 жыл бұрын
I found you on a video about birds...
@willynebula6193 5 жыл бұрын
@@archenema6792 lies! steps in front of 💰don't know what you're talking about.
@ProtoManiac2283 5 жыл бұрын
0:13 You can't fool me! THAT'S A TIGER IN DISGUISE
@marcelfil 5 жыл бұрын
Man, your delivery is way up!
@ccluci8848 5 жыл бұрын
Because you can’t ride them because people will walk over you
@ducktectivewhitewings9276 5 жыл бұрын
_because zebras are bastards_ Grey, CGP 20XX
@CanaldoSora1 5 жыл бұрын
Michael is so so so so cute, and I love his voice ❤️
@BHNative 5 жыл бұрын
I wonder if anyone has tried raising them with horses to see if there are any significant behavioral changes. I would imagine they would be at least a little tamer compared to the wild ones. Cool historical pictures in this episode as well! They might not be made for riding, but they definitely look cool when it works.
@SlovakLegend 5 жыл бұрын
damn, I havent seen SciShow in a year... You've gained some weight man! :D
@ironcityblue 5 жыл бұрын
I saw one at the zoo and it was super chill.
@geostyma 5 жыл бұрын
That is a excellent thumbnail
@jed_fox1 5 жыл бұрын
Fooled me there for a second! It seemed like you got a new sponsor, but nope still Skillshare.
@TaoriUTS 5 жыл бұрын
so tempted to try ride a zebra right now
@SilverDawnArrow 5 жыл бұрын
If you go to the museum in Tring you can actually see some of those domesticated zebras (although they are stuffed now...)
@Bountyhunter306 5 жыл бұрын
*reads title* *reads title again* Well, I know what I'm watching
@PrincessPopularity1 5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a challenge for me
@landonkryger 5 жыл бұрын
If there were a few "individual successes," seems like an opportunity to try some selective breeding like some are trying with foxes. Obviously we won't be seeing a Zebra ridable soon, but I doubt horses were readily ridable 5500 years ago either.
@thcrs1 5 жыл бұрын
This was probably the case with early horse as well. Most even wild horse populations were domesticated entirely or partially at some point.
@Dunkle0steus 5 жыл бұрын
The first horse domestication about 4000-5000 years ago involved having horses pull carts to transport goods. Later, chariots would be used for cavalry in warfare. Horses were about the size of ponies then. Horseback riding didn't become popular until about 1000 BC (around 2000 years after horses had become a staple in armies and farms across Eurasia).
@kr4t0sg.28 3 жыл бұрын
Well i learned something new today.
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