Yeah no, that wasn't what happened. "We" saw the potential use of horses and didn't stop trying to ride them until they let us.
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The cats are still mad at us.
25/09/22
First of all, taming depends on the animal already being social. A horse is relatively subservient to the 'herd will'... and the 'boss', the stallion. But really, they had to test different kinds of animals. Zebras might look a lot like horses, but they are intractable, moody, and supremely difficult to tame. And... the first horses weren't mounted, they were just for traction. Horses in Ancient Egypt were used to pull chariots, they weren't big enough to support a man on their backs. But then the miracles of the science of selective breeding began to work... and someone decided to get on the back of an already tamed horse.
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five
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They were not "cool with it" It baffles my mind who many people don't know how humanity engineered these animals to do as we wish. It is not just animals even plants too! Most of the shit we see today took literal centuries if not millennia of selective breeding to make!
25/09/22
donkeys and sheep are still getting riden on.
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horses arent the only animal....OP's mom is cool with it too
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My working theory is, that most of these early day discoveries happend because people got drunk and dared each others to do dangerous stuff.
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Wild horses are totally NOT cool with it...
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And we started with your mother.
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Horses weren't cool with it. We had to tame them, essentially force them to be cool with it.
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I wonder if we tried rollerblades with mices.
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In Mexico horse rides you and donkey too
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Horse in Europe ! Lama in Maya and all south america !
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Strange of you to assume they were.
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Well, elks, cows... that's about it ? not that many big animals that could carry a man
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Well these for example
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