Editing Zebra (section)

===Captivity===
[[File:George Stubbs - Zebra - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright|alt= A portrait of a zebra by George Stubbs | ''Zebra'' (1763) by [[George Stubbs]]. A portrait of [[Queen Charlotte]]'s zebra]]
Zebras have been kept in captivity since at least the [[Roman Empire]]. In later times, captive zebras have been shipped around the world, often for diplomatic reasons. In 1261, Sultan [[Baibars]] of [[Bahri dynasty|Egypt]] established an embassy with [[Alfonso X of Castile]] and sent a zebra and other exotic animals as gifts. In 1417, a zebra was gifted to the Chinese people by Somalia and displayed before the [[Yongle Emperor]]. The fourth [[Mughal emperors|Mughal]] emperor [[Jahangir]] received a zebra from Ethiopia in 1620 and [[Ustad Mansur]] made a painting of it. In the 1670s, [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopian Emperor]] [[Yohannes I]] exported two zebras to the Dutch governor of [[Jakarta]]. These animals would eventually be given by the Dutch to the [[Tokugawa Shogunate]] of Japan.{{sfn|Plumb|Shaw|2018|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8GxaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT59 55–62], 65–66}}

When [[Queen Charlotte]] received a zebra as a wedding gift in 1762, the animal became a source of fascination for the people of Britain. Many flocked to see it at its [[paddock]] at [[Buckingham Palace]]. It soon became the subject of humour and satire, being referred to as "The Queen's Ass", and was the subject of an oil painting by [[George Stubbs]] in 1763. The zebra also gained a reputation for being ill-tempered and kicked at visitors.{{sfn|Plumb|Shaw|2018|pp=76–78, 81}} In 1882, Ethiopia sent a zebra to French president [[Jules Grévy]], and the species it belonged to was named in his honour.<ref name="Prothero 2003" />
[[File:WalterRothschildWithZebras.jpg|thumb|left|upright|alt=Walter Rothschild with a carriage drawn by four zebra |[[Walter Rothschild]] with a zebra carriage]]
Attempts to [[domesticate]] zebras were largely unsuccessful. It is possible that having evolved under pressure from the many large predators of Africa, including early humans, they became more aggressive, thus making domestication more difficult.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Story Of... Zebra and the Puzzle of African Animals |website=PBS |access-date=13 August 2020|url=https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/zebra.html}}</ref> However, zebras have been [[animal training|trained]] throughout history. In Rome, zebras are recorded to have pulled chariots during [[amphitheatre]] games starting in the reign of [[Caracalla]] (198 to 217 AD).{{sfn|Plumb|Shaw|2018|p=56}} In the late 19th century, the zoologist [[Walter Rothschild]] trained some zebras to draw a carriage in England, which he drove to Buckingham Palace to demonstrate that it can be done. However, he did not ride on them knowing that they were too small and aggressive.<ref>{{cite web |author=Young|first= R. |title=Can Zebras Be Domesticated and Trained? |publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/09/04/can_zebras_be_domesticated_and_trained.html |access-date=4 September 2013 |date=23 May 2013}}</ref> In the early 20th century, [[German East Africa|German colonial officers in East Africa]] tried to use zebras for both driving and riding, with limited success.<ref>{{cite book |author=Gann|first1= L. |last2=Duignan|first2= Peter |year=1977 |title=The Rulers of German Africa, 1884–1914 |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |page=206 |isbn=978-0-8047-6588-6}}</ref>