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The Secret Reason Horses Let Us Ride Them

CGP Grey3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
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CGP Grey explains why horses could be ridden and why other animals like zebras and bears were never domesticated for war or riding. It is a follow-up on the topic of animal domestication.

HN recommends it as a classic on why some animals are suited to farming and domestication and others are not.

Animals & natureEvolution & genetics

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@jerf2018 · in “The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself”

One way in which horses shaped the world is precisely that they only existed in certain places: [VIDEO] Absence vs. presence is an effect too!

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@emj2018 · in “Network of fortified towns indicates Amazon was once heavily populated”

CGP grey has a great video based on that book: [LINK] , there is also a follow up on the related subject of animal domestication [VIDEO]

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@oblio2022 · in “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”

A classic: [VIDEO] "Ten pounds of grass make a pound of steak. And ten pounds of steak make a pound of tiger. But these have the same number of calories - so you might as well just eat the cow and save yourself a lot of work."

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@bizzletk2023 · in “Digging In: Why Don’t Americans Eat Mutton?”

CGP Grey has a great video [0] that goes into why some animals are better to farm/breed/eat than others. The top selection criteria are animals that are: 1. Friendly 2. Feedable 3. "Fecund" 4. Family-friendly [0] [VIDEO]

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