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Outline of animal powered transport

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Outline of 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.

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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.

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
  • horses

    • In water

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

    • Animal-powered vehicles

  • 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
  • Michigan logging wheels
  • omnibus
  • bullock cart
  • pantechnicon van
  • Park drag
  • phaeton (carriage)
  • postchaise
  • pulka
  • railway
  • road wagon
  • rockaway (carriage)
  • sled
  • sledge
  • sleigh
  • stagecoach
  • streetcar
  • sulky
  • tangah
  • team boat
  • towboat
  • travois
  • trolley
  • van
  • vardo
  • Victoria (carriage)
  • vis-a-vis (carriage)
  • wagon
  • wain

    • References

    Outline of animal-powered transport Wikipedia
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