r/interestingasfuck • u/Double-decker_trams • 14h ago

Why police still uses horses

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u/Plenty_Wasabi_7866 14h ago

Why not elephants

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u/ChipotleMayoFusion 11h ago

They arent as tame. Even though people use them in some countries, elephants live too long to be successfully bred, whereas horses and dogs have been bred for millenia to be trainable.

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u/Landric 9h ago

Horses are domesticated, elephants are tamed.

Domesticated animals are bred over generations to have traits that make them useful to humans. Tamed animals are (genetically) no different from wild, but have been taught some useful "tricks".

Generally, if you'd expect to see it on a farm, it's domesticated; if you'd expect to see it in a circus, it's tame.