Why do we ride horses but not zebras?

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Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-13 Zebras and horses are very similar - so why do we only ride one but not the other? Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26348970 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4501558/ http://www.galton.org/essays/1860-1869/galton-1865-domestication-animals.pdf http://www.academia.edu/3374116/Early_hominid_hunting_butchering_and_carcass-processing_behaviors_Approaches_to_the_fossil_record https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407909606916 http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2016/05/25/do-zebras-stripes-confuse-biting-flies/ http://fubini.swarthmore.edu/~ENVS2/S2007/llam1/horses1.html https://thomsonsafaris.com/blog/taming-zebras-domestication-attempts/ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-why-zebras-have-never-been-domesticated https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/09/can-zebras-be-domesticated-and-trained.html https://www.livescience.com/33870-domesticated-animals-criteria.html http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/zebra.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-horses-history-idUSTRE5246HI20090305 http://discovermagazine.com/2002/mar/featride https://www.jstor.org/stable/2569316?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/young-beautiful-zebra-isolated-on-white-background-zebra-close-up-zebra-cutout-full-gm906828896-249894170 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/white-horse-isolated-gm174484648-15311941 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zebroid.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/native-american-hunter-petroglyph-gm1007854036-271908346 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/world-map-physical-vintage-vector-gm903081266-249081358 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/businessman-over-mount-trap-gm928427914-254656121 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/seamless-zebra-skin-pattern-gm584846570-100188755 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/african-safari-silhouettes-gm532261393-55644196 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/rock-paintings-gm469609834-62020272 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/funny-animals-gm505163508-83534313 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Dueling_zebras.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/lion-hunting-zebra-gm155320580-10936746 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/kicking-zebra-gm496851376-78793329 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/odd-couple-gm172883051-6042822 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsetse-BKF-2.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/jeep-off-road-in-moab-utah-gm157287957-4517555 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Rosendo_Ribeiro_on_zebra.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=riding+zebra&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go#/media/File:Zebra-tame-jumping.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/lion-hunting-zebra-gm155320580-10936746 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zebra_Kick,_Hearst_ranch.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/portrait-of-a-zebra-at-the-zoo-hzg2jsc6xjohx0y4o https://www.videoblocks.com/video/group-zebras-in-addo-elephant-national-park-south-africa-nowukm_nxiljtklps https://www.videoblocks.com/video/close-up-from-two-zebras-in-addo-elephant-national-park-south-africa-n_ctbg_2giljsf9jo https://www.videoblocks.com/video/close-up-cute-wild-zebras-standing-on-plain-tropical-savannah-fields-pasturing-bm51jr9nxix2219rl https://www.videoblocks.com/video/portrait-of-a-zebra-at-the-zoo-bz0kctptxjoexjum4 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/the-time-pressure-businesswoman-drowning-in-lots-of-time-clocks-concept-about-youth-gm823646846-133293395 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/give-up-to-work-gm452515599-30068266 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/space-1093-sf8ely8ginaj5el9
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