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[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week 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.

It has to do with social structures from what I read a while ago.

Horses have a hierarchical structure and zebras don't.

[-] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 13 points 1 week 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

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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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