Re: Horses in South India

On 2008-08-04 00:10, Rick McCallister wrote:

> Regarding Mesopotamian domestication or attempts to domesticate onagers
> and hemiones. Was that a misunderstanding on the part of the Greeks?

It seems Greek authors failed to differentiate properly between wild
equids, especially hemiones and asses (or even, say, hemiones and
domestic mules).

> I've read that zebras actually are possible to domesticate but the
> problem is that their kidneys are so far up that any attempt to ride
> them produces pain.
>
> But onagers and hemiones are just plain ornery, aren't they?

So they are, damn their big ears :)

Piotr