Okay, but what about the moose?
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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Moose can't ride zebras either
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.
Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti
Yeah they survive for a reason. They’re very tough.
“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.”
I thought the stripes were actually camouflage and they’re just monochromatic because the things they’re hiding from have poor color vision.
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.
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.
brb getting a full body tattoo
The Zebra says: I ain't nobody's bitch!
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.
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.
What distinguishes zebras from horses is that zebras live in anonymous herds.
says a lot about 4chan, the penny arcade GIFT theory, etc
With how Facebook forces real names, the idea that being anonymous has any influence where or not someone is a fuckwad had been debunked.
It's not the anonimity that makes people fuckwads. It's the lack of immediate consequences. A fuckwad won't get a punch in the face for what they say on facebook, hence they feel they can say anything and be a fuckwad.
"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it", Mike Tyson
Regardless of how you feel about Tyson, Truth is Truth.
In a large enough group there is still anonymity even if your face and name are on there.
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In the 1980s, in Tijuana, tourist kids could ride horses painted like zebras.
One of them is killing a freaking alligator.
Crocodile
They are also not suited to be riding them, even if they were tame.
Horses aren't either, and people still do it.
No, i mean, Zebras have a weaker back and are also smaller.
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.
Hey, stop it zebra, you have to adhere to the rules of the food chain!
Don't worry, the food chain is well preserved.
Horse-shaped, but definitely not a horse.
Punk horse, running IDK chimpanzee firmware?
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