Zebras are just too fit

The question: Can zebras be domesticated?

That's a tame zebra.

An English zoological collector, Lord Rothschild, used to ride around in a zebra drawn carriage. And there are several other instances of people using zebras to draw carriages.

Horace Hayes found that the Burchell's zebra is relatively easy to break and would be ideal for domestication. Another candidate, the guagga, is also well-suited to domestication and is more docile than others.

So i found this article (click here for link) online about Guns, Germs, and Steel. I was super impressed because it seemed to be explaining that animals in Africa were harder to domesticate because of "survival of the fittest" - African herbivores are selected to be aggressive because of all of the nasty predators there. But then I saw this:

A pattern emerged. African herbivores were simply too aggressive for human control. Elsewhere in the world, mammals evolved in isolation from human interference — after all, man only lived outside of Africa for a fraction of his existence on earth-- around 50,000 years. When man arrived in Eurasia and in the Americas, native herbivores were by nature less cautious and more receptive to human control.

And the problem is that in Eurasia and America there were a lot of terrible predators too... until humans came in and magically the predators started disappearing. From climate change? Competition with humans? Loss of prey? Food for humans? I'm not really sure. I'll need to do more research.

Zebras may be too, too fit... but see how well this zebra tutu fits?

baby picture: http://pumpkinpatching.blogspot.com/2010/09/hot-pink-and-zebra-print.html

first zebra picture: http://www.madamzebra.com/Domestication-of-Zebras.html

picture of Rothchild with zebras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WalterRothschildWithZebras.jpg