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[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That could have potentially been bred out for domesticated strains like we did with horses also, but we never even got to that point because horse hierarchy and zebra hierarchy are very different beasts, and you can't really tame a zebra matriarch and have the rest of the herd fall into line, because zebras don't have that kind of matriarchal social system. They are so mistrustful and hard to approach that we were never even able to get to square one.