For myself, I venture confidently to look back thousands on thousands of generations, and I see an animal striped like a zebra, but perhaps otherwise very differently constructed, the common parent of our domestic horse (whether or not it be descended from one or more wild stocks) of the ass, the hemionus, quagga, and zebra.
Ni neu konfidantzaz beterik ausartzen naiz milaka eta milaka belaunalditan zehar atzera begiratzen, eta zebra bezala marraz zeharkaturiko abere bat ikusten dut, bestalde agian oso bestela taiutua, gure etxe-zaldiaren (basa-enbor batetik nahiz gehiagotik etorria izan), astoaren, basasto asiarraren, quaggaren eta zebraren arbaso komuna.