zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other.

Zebra's don't like anyone, and they're not afraid to show it. Repeatedly.

This makes me wonder... How much of what he says is just conjecture? Do we ACTUALLY know with good certainty that zebras can't be domesticated due to their nature? Or is it just a hypothesis/theory that has reached widespread popularity?

I have heard that zebras (along with other African animals) can't be domesticated because they have evolved to live among humans, when we were still man-apes. But that maybe that's just conjecture too.

Note how he have no sources in his video or description. And his comparison to chickens, cows, sheep and cats don't seem to make much sense. The relation between humans and chickens/cows/sheep is markedly different from that of horses. Do wild fowl really have family structures? Cats don't yet they are still docile among humans.

Edit: even if we really can't do we know the reason why?

What distinguishes zebras from horses is that zebras live in anonymous herds.

says a lot about 4chan, the penny arcade GIFT theory, etc

Jet Li says: You, are mine.

Punk horse, running IDK chimpanzee firmware?

I thought the stripes were actually camouflage and they’re just monochromatic because the things they’re hiding from have poor color vision.

It has to do with social structures from what I read a while ago.

Horses have a hierarchical structure and zebras don't.

What you don't spot on that picture is the front "zebra" in the back, is a painted horse. Apparently that helped the zebras remain more calm

Literally everything in Africa has evolved to run away from humans, because when animals hear human speech and don't run away they get eaten or domesticated.

When you look at a map of domesticated animals origins, not a single one comes from Africa. All the animals there know what humans are like no matter how we try fooling them.

Oh yah here's the video sourcing that shit I just listened to today https://youtu.be/EqGxxWvDXsM

Crocodile

Don't worry, the food chain is well preserved.

No. Zebras don't have a herd hierarchy we can exploit. With horses you pick out the lead horse, tame it and boom, the whole herd follows you.
With zebras you get one zebra, if you're very lucky. More likely you'll get kicked and bitten.

Selective breeding is no different than natural evolution in how drastically it can change an organism given enough time and the right selections for “fitness”.

So you could produce a domesticated, tame zebra – but waiting on and favoring the right mutations would take a very long time and be prohibitively expensive. It’s possible, but not realistically feasible.

Horses aren't either, and people still do it.