Is zebra a horse?
2007-01-20 19:49:08 · 16 answers · asked by Braveheart 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Technically, no. But as with many questions, the answer is not as simple as it seems.
However, it depends on what you mean by "horse". The species of animal we routinely call a horse scientifically considered Equus caballus. However, "horses" is also often used in the scientific literature to mean a large family of animals related to horses, including donkeys and asses as well as many extinct animals.
Zebras are of four species, and are designated Equus zebra, Equus quagga, Equus hartmannae and Equus grevyi.
Horses and Zebras are very closely related but they are not the same. They belong to the same scientific genus (Equus). This makes them as closely related as, for example, Lions, Tigers, Leopards and Jaguars are to each other (they are all in the genus Panthera).
2007-01-21 02:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Zebra And Horse
2016-11-04 22:01:25 · answer #2 · answered by munley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Zebra is in the same family as the Horse and Donkey and Mule. There was actually a cross breed between a Donkey and a Zebra, they called it a Zonkey! clever. I don't think it lived long though.
2016-03-29 07:14:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's something I thought I'd share with you... I went to a place and they had a horse and a zebra that mated because the foal had black stripes on it (you could see them in the sunlight) so in some way they are related. That also proves that zebras are white with black stripes but that's pretty obvious if you ask me...
2007-01-20 21:16:33 · answer #4 · answered by The [[perfect]] nightmare 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are four or five species of zebra and three or four species of horse and donkey. While they are all related, zebras are further apart from horses, genetically, than humans are from chimpanzees.
2007-01-20 20:57:51 · answer #5 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an ungulate mammal having following characteristics :
a. Having hooves.
b. Resembling hooves; hoof-like.
Of or belonging to the former order Ungulata, now divided into the orders Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla and composed of the hoofed mammals such as horses, cattle, deer, swine, and elephants.
Zebra is a horse wearing same dress daily.
2007-01-20 20:15:07 · answer #6 · answered by CUTE BOY 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A zebra is not a horse, but is in the same genus as a horse, equus
2007-01-20 19:57:51 · answer #7 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a horse that wears pajamas. The Japanese call zebras shima uma, which means stripped horse.
2007-01-20 19:56:23 · answer #8 · answered by Max 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They belong to the same family, just a different zoology branch.
2007-01-20 19:57:46 · answer #9 · answered by patti duke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it belongs to the same family. it's closer to a donkey tho'
2007-01-20 21:58:33 · answer #10 · answered by qwerty u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋