The Secret Reason Horses Let Us Ride Them on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 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.
“CGP Grey has a great video [0] that goes into why some animals are better to farm/breed/eat than others.”
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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] ▶ this video
in “Digging In: Why Don’t Americans Eat Mutton?” · View on HN
A classic: ▶ this 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."
in “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries” · View on HN
CGP grey has a great video based on that book: [link] , there is also a follow up on the related subject of animal domestication ▶ this video
in “Network of fortified towns indicates Amazon was once heavily populated” · View on HN
One way in which horses shaped the world is precisely that they only existed in certain places: ▶ this video Absence vs. presence is an effect too!
in “The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself” · View on HN