Riding Newman the Zebra 

Folks, this is one of the most impressive things you’ll see today considering the makeup and temperament of zebras. Mind blown.

This zebra totally trusts. That's a difficult and great achievement in a wild animal. You have very good skills. I wish I had my own zebra. Unfortunately Germany is a bit short of them. So I have to stick to chubby Fjord horses. :D All the best for you and your animals.

I don't know if the zebra is happy about it or not, but it's a great achievement that he's so calm and lets you do this

Show this to Joe Rogan

Wow! that's one of a hell tame zebra, I am amazed!

I’m sure you know, since this was 11 years ago, but a mule saddle or more padding at the wither would improve saddle fit immensely. The gullet looks like it’s resting right on this guy’s withers, and the bars are directly on top of his shoulder blades

I knew this was possible! Yes they can be wild and have bad tempers but so can some horses. You just have to be patient and really form a bond of trust. I totally want to ride a zebra one day

you are a very good trainer, the mounting preparation was well done, the backing up was great, how each time he took a step back, you relieved the pressure on the bit, and that wasn't hard at all either, good job

People saying "You can't ride zebras! They're untameable! They are wild animals!" So were horses. And now they're our trusting companions. This zebra obviously has lots of trust for this girl. Now why is she hopping on and off and doing all this crazy stuff? It's called DESENSITIZING! We all do it to our green horses! Including me! I'm working with a 3 year old newly castrated male horse. He's still got stallion in him. You do that to get used to the pressure on their backs and that you will get off them. You also wave a cloth(I use a grocery bag) to help with spooking.

Reminds me of a movie called Racing Stripes

She’s to big you can tell by the way he walks bless him

You can tell why that zebra is so patient and domesticated from the looks of it, they feed her quite well lol

I'm so jealous I would love to pet a real Zebra this lady really loves her Zebras. God bless the work you do

What an amazing video! I have owned and shown horses all my life, but have always dreamed of riding a zebra :)

Coming here after watching 3 separate videos on why you can't ride zebras...

Joe Rogan said humans don't ride zebras lol

Rogan said humans can’t ride Zebras. This is clearly a deep fake video. Rogan is never wrong.

Wow what a wonderful video so many skills and I love how calm the zebra is

Just spray paint a donkey, would be less effort

So generally zebras are too mean to ride right? My question is if they can find some like this one that are well tempered enough, why can't they just breed those with other well-tempered Zebras and isolate that trait?

I came to this video because Joe Rogan said it was impossible.

Joe Rogan you’re wrong buddy, it’s possible lol

Zebras are capable of the same feats as ponies, so they can carry adult humans. The factor that makes most of them untameable is that zebras have a tendency to be mean.

The level of mutual trust here is incredible

I totally agree.. riding is a great bonding exercise, especially as they are herd animal out in the open and they have to look to you for reassurance and guidance. Some really enjoy what they do and riding exercises can be good physical therapy for a stiff/unbalanced horse as well as general exercise. I rider has to learn to listen as well as give instructions, and when you listen, you learn so much more about eachother. It's team building exercise :3

Awesome. Also, RU-vid recommended this right after I watched a good video called "Why Don't Humans Ride Zebras?" ha ha.

Finally somone on youtube that knows how to brake a horse!!!!!

It’s beautiful to see a young lady with the true skill and patience to break an animal to the saddle with genuine kindness. Be proud be very proud 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

Joe Rogan sent us here

That’s… actually impressive!

I LOVE this video. There is another video on this site called "Man rides Zebra" wherein the Zebra is in a very severe bit and is bucking and trying to get away when the guy tries to mount. It makes Zebras look like ferocious demonic animals that can't be tamed, and I love that this video shows another side to them. Thank you very much, and AWESOME job with your training!

This video gave me racing stripe vibes that you have a zebra in the farm

that is absolutly amazing! Well trained!

Savanna Warrior watching like "wtf am I do running around all the time?".

People ride donkeys and shit. No one complains about their backs. Although I've heard zebras are very unpredictable and can get more aggressive as they get older. That's why domesticating a zebra is a bad idea.

Few have done what she could do with this marvelous animal, well done👏

I've been riding my entire life and I still don't understand why people are so astonished when someone can stand on the back of a horse. What's the point of it? Other than create a large amount of pressure on a concentrated area of his spine?

You know there was a time people said that about horses, dogs, cat's, snakes and pretty much any animal that's been domesticated. So as long as the animals aren't suffering and as long as their natural-needs are met there is nothing wrong with keeping a zebra.

Horse is like a car and Zebra is like a sports bike

@ManeNTailFarm2004 I don't recommend riding a zebra. They are designed differently than horses and although they are strong, they cannot handle a lot of weight sitting on their backs. Young kids may be able to ride without injuring the zebra over time, however, because they are not domesticated, they can be very unpredictable at times. Plus they are very skittish naturally, which is why so many domesticating trials have failed in the past.

I read that you can't ride a zebra or domesticate them, because they are mean. But they seem to be very kind on cirkus, and here.. :)

Your Equus looking very healty and good

I just absolutely love that girls rapunzel hair!! I want it lol x her zebra is very cute she's very brave to train him x

The lady should have used a bit-less bridle... It was obvious the zebra was uncomfortable with it. Also don't put chains close to its face... But I don't see what's so wrong with riding a zebra if its being cooperative.

aww poor baby im sure he is not okay with that but loves her

Sitting on a zebras back and riding it around is very damaging to the zebra. Zebras backs are not evolved to be able to carry humans or cargo or any weight

Now if only you find other Zebras with this level of patience, and breed them together for thousands of years, one day people will be able to ride Zebras as commonly as horses.

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ A time ago when I was a wee lad, my parents got a labrador puppy, of which, I annoyingly kept jumping on its back so I can ride the dog like a horse. Failed numerous times at first but overtime, the dog trusted me and knew I wanted a ride around the living room. Needless to say, when I turned 13, the dog was already 6-7 years old and it was able to ride the dog around the backyard. I weighed 100lbs but good old lab was really strong. Once he turned 8, I stopped jumping on his back and I wanted to let him live his senior years. He lived up to 17 years old and was strong as an ox at that age still but a heart infection was his ending and we could not save him. Vets predicted he could have lived up to 18 or 19 and were suprised the lab lived that long and had really strong muscles for a lab and could not make out why. I told the vets I used to get on its back like a zebra that cannot be tamed but eventually succumb to getting used to it and dog trusted me and did flail me out of its back when he didnt like it. Dog had no spine issues nor any damage. Why did I share this? Because his name was Zebra :( and the moves this trainer did reminded me of it.

Beatrix: "Wiggle your big toe"

I love you clearly amazing this women must be to train a zebra, I love it even more that youtubers who took 2 moths of riding lessons are trying to offer her advice.

You are doing this so good you’re thinking about the animal.

Nice to see someone who knows how to train an animal.

Impressive schooling! Great job on this young equine!

Wow! This is Really Amazing I have always heard that its impossible to be able to accomplish this because a Zebra has a genetic distrust of humans. I think Zebras are one of the most beautiful animals.

"Attempts have been made to train zebras for riding, since they have better resistance than horses to African diseases. Most of these attempts failed, though, due to the zebra's more unpredictable nature and tendency to panic under stress. For this reason, zebra-mules or zebroids (crosses between any species of zebra and a horse, pony, donkey or ass) are preferred over purebred zebras." DERP

This Zebra is not happy about it. Zebras don't have strong shoulder like Horses and you could possibly break one of them.

Jarred Diamond status; forever, BLOWN! THE FUCK! OUT!

Wow I'm impressed 😲

Zebras are one of the few exotic animals that there's a 95% chance it won't kill you.

Amazing. With selective breeding from superb specimens like "Newman" and trainers like this, Zebras CAN be domesticated.

64 Billion towards 2022. Groetjes, Marcel.

BR BR BR BR BR OOOOOOOOUUUU BRAZILIAN !!!!

The people here saying you can't ride zebras because there wild animals are idiots, horses were and are still to this day wild animals! One of mans greatest early achievements was breaking in horses. All tame animals were once wild, except for the breeds we have created.

Roe Jogan

The look on his face is because he's not used to having that bit in his mouth. That lady isn't going to hurt that big stout zebra's back at all.

Wonderful job!

Take that nature, we will unfold any wild animal you give us.

As mmuch as I am amazed with how well trained this Zebra is.. I do not agree with sitting on top of its kidneys like that.. Poor animals ears went straight back at the feeling which must have been incredibly uncomfortable.

wow... i really respect you. your amazing.

The saddle looks way to big for the zebra. Zebras aren’t meant for riding so there is a likely chance you can easily damage its back, assuming it has no withers and like I said again, they aren’t made to be ridden.

Great job you are doing. Have to watch your other video's.

Woah! You have LONG hair!

Zebra be like: what exactly are you trying to do ma'am 🤣

better than being lion din

They say you can never train a zebra but this is proof that you can try and be successful

you are doing a good job with this stripe ;o)

So much for the Guns, Germs, and Steel argument. Zebras may have a reputation for being temperamental, but ancient wild horses probably did too before millennia of selective breeding. If zebras had been domesticated millennia ago, the domesticated ones would probably be just like modern horses.

Great job. Never thought this would be possible.

Joe rogan brought me here

Zebra:😡😡😡😠😠😠

That's freaking awesome!!!

With all the animals in all the world, horses, camals, donkies, giraffs, elephants, none is more like a horse than a Zebra... Yet, the people in all other parts of the world used the thousands of years to LEARN to ride any animal of that size. If an adult could not ride a Zebra, why not the children in thousands of years. Over the thousands of years, the ankles of the Zebra would have grown stronger, adapting to the culture of being ridden

Beautiful animal :D I'm very envious of you

She's playing with fire , if that zebra decides to attack her , it can be be pretty bad, zebras are well known to kill a lion with its kicks

And this is why you don't listen to google because you definitely can ride a zebra! Nice job

I didn’t know you could ride zebra. I though they were just st wild.

i thought of a fantasy book i read blade of fire the icemark chronicles where the african like country far to the south rode zebra like horses. looked up riding? training zebra and here ya go!. that's really cool. you can tell he really trusts and loves you.

Wow! How did you breed/train them to be so calm? He's GORGEOUS! When I move back to Texas I might want to contact you about getting myself one of your geldings

Rogan: It's a pony. She painted it

Seems as if she's just putting up with it and doesn't like it. Many others would throw you off but she's just being nice

This is a hibrid between a donkey and a cebra

Problem Jared Diamond?

great video! you have trained him really good! :)

Wow that is awesome. I do train such a thing?

There are Videos to the contrary all over, Thanks for proving them WRONG!!

Zebra riding?! I want to ride on a zebra.

he is adorable! and if the bit bothered him im sure you would see some bucking and naughtyness :) love this video!

Oh god lol, people yelling again. If she rides the zebra , it means he can carry her. -__-' lol the zebra doesn't look in pain at all. * sigh *

Wow that’s really cool how your zebra does that and I impressed on how the zebra is ok wearing a saddle and a bridle ever since I Seen one in a move called racing stripes this is amazing

The fact that this woman was able to ride a fucking zebra it’s mine blowing like this is something that it’s not achieve all the time, due to the fact that zebras are extremely aggressive, so my props to this lady and and let the domestication of the zebra begin