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Old 01-24-2004, 07:11 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally posted by LaughinMon
just out of curiousity, why zebra?
and can you tame a zebra and ride it like regular horses?
Zebras are too ornery to tame on any sort of organized basis. This per "Guns, Germs, and Steel", Diamond, Norton 1999.

As for why a Zebra as a sign of massive endowment, that's a good question. I would have gone with whale or elephant or bear or bull, not zebra.
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