Submitted by clacker96 t3_11v8ah5 in askscience
aldinski t1_jcvh06a wrote
Reply to comment by Necessary-Lack-4600 in How different were the first horses domesticated by humans compared to modern horses? by clacker96
Yeah, maybe. But catching animals is always part of the herding, usually not daily business, but in many situations, least not of all catching for the kill. Horses are constant grazers and not as feed efficient as cows (or goats and sheep) this also means that they cover a lot of ground a day and they are skittish flight animals. So you can not compare them to cow/sheet/goat. Also horses haven been domesticated quite late in history, compared to the other animals. Botai horses clearly were ridden, so riding horses was part of the horse herding business and was developed in parallel.
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