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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by ChuckMcM on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:20PM (#17007231)
Absolutely, and the fox experiments[1] suggest 40 generations is sufficient. You just have to breed them for it on a consistent basis.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-bes...

Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by madflame991 on Sunday May 06, 2018 @02:04PM (#17007455)
The catch is that friendly foxes don't look that foxy anymore; friendly zebras might lose their stripes at which point they kinda look like donkeys
Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by ChuckMcM on Sunday May 06, 2018 @02:20PM (#17007545)
That is entirely possible of course. But if that was the case, you could get a hell of a paper out of it by proving the genes responsible for coloration were tied to domestication.
Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by gwern on Sunday May 06, 2018 @02:25PM (#17007581)
I'm afraid Darwin already published on how domestication syndrome involves pleiotropy in coloration changes, especially to piebaldness (which did indeed also happen to some degree in the domesticated foxes despite being selected solely based on behavior), so he has priority there by 2 centuries or so.
Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by x1798DE on Sunday May 06, 2018 @05:44PM (#17008747)
They look a lot like wild foxes to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox