Animal-powered transport

Animal-powered transport

Animal-powered transport is a broad category of the human use of non-human working animals (also known as "beasts of burden") for the movement of people and goods.

Humans may ride some of the larger of these animals directly, use them as pack animals for carrying goods, or harness them, singly or in teams, to pull (or haul) sleds or wheeled vehicles.

Animals domesticated for transport

In the air

• pigeon

On land

• camel, Arabian and Bactrian
• carabao
• dog
  • sled dog
  • Dogcart (dog-drawn)
• elephant
• equine
  • pack horse
  • draught horse
  • riding horse
  • coach horse
  • donkey
  • mule
  • hinny
• llama
• moose
• ostrich
• ox
• reindeer
• sheep
• yak

On water

• Dolphins (to carry markers to attach to detected mines)

Animal powered vehicles

Main article: Horse-drawn vehicle

• barge (sometimes pulled by humans)
• berlin (vehicle)
• brancard
• Brougham (carriage)
• caravan
• carriage
• cart
• chaise
• charabanc
• chariot (ancient form sometimes used in combat, later a racing machine, later a name for something entirely different in carriages)
• coach
• cocking cart
• Conestoga wagon
• cutter
• curricle
• dogcart
• dormeuse
• dray
• ferry
• float
• gig
• governess cart
• Hansom cab
• horsecar
• horse-drawn boat
• horse-powered boat
• horse-powered ferries (horses turn a mechanism that propels the craft) See Experiment (horse powered boat)
  • Experiment (horse powered boat)
• howdah
• litter (vehicle) (sometimes carried by humans, mainly used with equines, though occasionally camels)
• mail coach
• omnibus
• bullock cart
• pantechnicon van
• Park drag
• phaeton (carriage)
• postchaise
• pulka
• railway
• road wagon
• rockaway (carriage)
• sled
• sledge
• sleigh
• stagecoach
• streetcar
• sulky
• tangah
• towboat
• travois
• trolley
• van
• vardo
• Victoria (carriage)
• vis-a-vis (carriage)
• wagon
• wain

See also

• Experiment (horse powered boat)
• Human-powered transport
• Muleteer
• Horse harness
• Howdah
• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
• Zero-emissions vehicle
• saddle
• Yoke

References

• REX EXPRESS e. V. (Live animal transportation, pet relocation, horse transport)
• [1] Animal Traction Development
• [2] Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa