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have been found capable of being tamed, the efforts to 

 make domestic animals of them have always failed. We 

 know very little as to how man tamed the camel, our 

 domestic cow, or horse, or in what way the breeds w r ith 

 which we are nowadays familiar came about. Whether 

 the horse be the outcome of the interbreeding of two 

 or of many species, in any case its present type is due 

 to thousands of years of training and breeding by man. 



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Perhaps the zebra is also destined to undergo a similar 

 development ; but this will not be brought about in a 

 generation, or even in several generations. 



In South Africa it was observed that zebras allowed 

 themselves to be harnessed with ponies, and seemed 

 relatively docile in their company, but that the moment 

 and this is the whole point of the thing the moment hard 

 and continuous work was expected, as from a horse, they 

 simply became ill, and died of '' broken hearts " ! 



The experiences of circus-managers are often interesting 

 to hear of in connection with animals. I have been told 

 by one of them that a male zebra, which had lived many 

 years in the menagerie with other zebras, once made its 

 escape and disappeared somewhere in the menagerie, and 

 could not be caught for some hours. In spite of the united 

 efforts of the assembled circus employes, it was only after 

 many hours that the dangerous animal was brought back 

 to his stall, and then only by dint of surrounding it by 

 boards and beams. 



The men who break-in animals for circus performances 

 are prone to the use of coercion with them, instead of 

 trying to develop their sagacity. In the case of zebras, 



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