What other animals can be ridden into battle besides horses?
I read that the genghis khan used to make fun of backwoods mongolian tribes for riding reindeer into battle. Aparrently Genghis used camels for logistics but many other cultures rode them into battle.
Also, might be fantasy, but aparrently the mongols were so mount mogged by cultures who rode war elephants they just noped straight out of vietnam and india, and basically any other place that had them in force.
>Mongols mogged by war elephants
They got mogged by thick jungles that were antithetical to their way of combat. They were great on open plains and deserts where maneuverability and ranged warfare was supreme and competent enough to handle a city but the horde was what it was.
Though elephants are also more capable in swampland then any other mount by a mile.
Elephants persisted in SEA jungle warfare until the 1900s for good reason. Most elephsnt countermeasures cant be used when they sneak up on you. The things are crazy quiet and slick at getting through marsh.
Imagine if the Mongols embraced sea transport, and used Chinese ships to travel to North America at the height of their power. Imagine Genghis running amok on the great plains when horses were unheard of.
They'd have left immediately after realizing nobody of the literal stone-age people there has anything worth taking, while the developed cultures further south had a shitton of gold but similarly to Europe the terrain would have made it impossible for them to wage war there.
>200 bc
>still being a poorgay no-elephants
Shiggy
Little known fact: male elephants have a prehensile penis. It's just about as mobile as their trunk.
As if these mf's needed to be scarier
It's going to be a real big reindeer and a pretty small guy if you want to ride it. Moose have the size, but despite people trying every now and then nothing ever really comes of it.
In theory, we could use bison, but they are rather temperamental and mean. Comes with the territory of having suboptimal eyesight and being built like a tank.
Sweden used to have moose cavalry but they were too hard to train to get used ti gunfire apparently.
Not really. Attempts were made in some weak moment of jingositic fervour but it never really became a thing.
Girls just love reindeer.
God i hate reindeer so much its unreal
What the frick is that. Source? Is this a snuff film?? Anon where did you get this.
you can still find it on youtube.
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why the frick is she blowing that reindeer??
she hasnt gotten any in a while aince she's surrounded by Suomi autismos. so she makes do.
Ostriches. I always just thought it was a weird jrpg thing but apparently people race them with jockies riding. I guess when you get enough drunk irish people around ostriches it was just bound to happen eventually
The tv show Dirty Jobs had a similar thing with sheep, the alternative is you put a tourniquet around the things balls till it falls off.
I don't think she's giving it a blowjob, it looks more like she's castrating it with her teeth. That's actually a thing. It's mostly been obviated by those high-compression rubber band things, but half a century ago the fastest way to castrate a herd of soon-to-be steers was to hire some South Americans to bite their balls off.
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Yep, it looks like this is from a YouTube video on traditional "bite me" style castration of reindeers.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/17014/can-people-castrate-reindeer-by-biting-off-the-testicles
Bite style castration is still the best method of castrating livestock. The compression bands take days for the castration to complete and its pure wailing agony for the livestock.
t. Brother owned goats
>Bite
>not knives
Why
Interview with Mike Rowe explains it, but you are basically spreading the nutsack open with your hands, so all you really have are your teeth.
huh. I remember hearing about basque herders doing this. I thought it was just a basque thing.
god I wish I was that reindeer
Nice
i am so conflicted
Brazilian buffalo police
These frickers are notoriously dangerous and bad-tempered. One of the Big Five of Africa, and Kipling wrote about them.
your mom
i wonder if you could mount a lmg on one and train it to not freak the frick out
You definitely can on camels and elephants.
(not a mount but hmm)
train golden eagles to be used like drones are being used. dropping small bombs onto targets then swooping away quickly to rearm their talons
eagles don't have any instinct to base accurate dropping of bombs on
homie, Golden Eagles literally kill large or hardened prey by dropping it from heights. How have you not heard about this?
That doesnt mean accuracy
Pretty sure this was attempted during WW1 but failed miserably due to bomb weight issues and birds simply not dropping it on target.
>mogged by cultures who rode war elephants
No, they were just too stretched thin at that point with lot of resistance from established empires
Moose can outrun horses in deep snow.
Make of that what you will.