Zebras are common animals found on the African savannah. Take, for example, the plain zebra with the largest total number. The female is 110-145 cm tall and weighs 175-385 kg, which is basically very similar to the mongolian horse body shape. The appearance is in line with the essence of riding, even if it is small, it can be used as a donkey.
So Westerners rushed to Africa and tried to tame zebras, only to be teased by the local natives.
They raise zebras as livestock because zebras, horses and donkeys are fundamentally different. Zebras are social animals, and individual daily lives can also cause more serious anxiety, causing physical and mental problems.
At the same time, zebras are aggressive far more aggressive than horses. Many Leos in the african prairie were injured or killed by zebras during the process of hunting zebras. Zebras are much more robust than horses. In particular, the hind legs are strong and powerful, and they can kick the jawbone of the lion to pieces, causing the lion to starve to death because he cannot eat.
At the beginning of the 19th century, several British nobles came to Africa. It is planned to domesticate a few zebras and transport them to Buckingham Palace for performances.
After being transported to Britain, many British nobles found it strange, and as a result, there was a wave of taming zebras in Europe. As a result, a large number of British people went to Africa to hunt zebras and transport them back to be used as mounts. But the zebra's bad temper and tough attack made the British very miserable.
At the same time, on the surface, zebras and horses have similar reproductive ability, both require a gestation period of about a year, and then most of them can only give birth to one litter. However, it takes a full 3 years for zebras to start their pregnancy until their second estrus. Although horses also need about a year of gestation, and each litter is mostly only 1 cub, horses have an estrus period every year.
To this day, some people still take pleasure in taming zebras, but even if zebras are raised from an early age, they still regard their owners as opponents.
So raising zebras seems to be harder than raising lions!