The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to animal-powered transport: Animal-powered transport – 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 on their backs, 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

Terrestrial

* camel, Arabian, and Bactrian * carabao * deer * dog ** sled dog ** Dogcart (dog-drawn) * elephant * equine **

donkey The domestic donkey is a hoofed mammal in the family Equidae, the same family as the horse. It derives from the African wild ass, ''Equus africanus'', and may be classified either as a subspecies thereof, ''Equus africanus asinus'', or as a ...

mule The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse. It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two pos ...

** hinny ** horse *** pack horse *** draught horse *** riding horse *** coach horse * llama * moose * ostrich * ox * reindeer * sheep *

yak The domestic yak (''Bos grunniens''), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau, Kachin Sta ...

Amphibious

* Turtles were used for riding as a sport in early 20th-century Australia

Marine

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

Aerial

* Pigeon (for carrying messages)

Animal-powered vehicles

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* barge (sometimes pulled by humans) * berlin (vehicle) *

Brougham (carriage) __NOTOC__ A brougham was a light, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage built in the 19th century.The ''OED'' gives a first usage in 1851, but the original design dates from about 1838, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica. Brougham died in 186 ...

caravan Caravan or caravans may refer to: Transport and travel *Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together **Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop *Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals *Convoy, a group of veh ...

carriage A carriage is a private four-wheeled vehicle for people and is most commonly horse-drawn. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis. Carriage suspensions are by leather strapping an ...

cart A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people. It is different from the flatbed tr ...

* chaise *

charabanc A charabanc or "char-à-banc" (often pronounced "sharra-bang" in colloquial British English) is a type of horse-drawn vehicle or early motor coach, usually open-topped, common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. It has "ben ...

chariot A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. The oldest known chariots have been found in burials of the Sintashta culture in modern-day Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, dated to c. 2000&nbs ...

(ancient form sometimes used in combat, later a racing machine, later a name for something entirely different in carriages) *

coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co ...

* Conestoga wagon * curricle * dogcart *

dray Dray may refer to: * Cart, also called dray in Australia and New Zealand * Dray horse, a horse that pulls a dray, also called a draft horse * Dray (name) * Dray Prescot series, science fiction novels by Kenneth Bulmer under the pseudonym Alan Burt ...

* ferry * float * gig * governess cart * Hansom cab * horsecar * horse-drawn boat * horse-powered boat *

Experiment (horse-powered boat) ''Experiment'' was an early 19th-century boat powered by horses and incorporating the idea of a screw propeller, which was a new idea at the time. History ''Experiment'' was a horse-powered ferry boat. It was a 12-ton, three-masted boat drawi ...

* howdah * litter (vehicle) (sometimes carried by humans, mainly used with equines, though occasionally camels) * mail coach * Michigan logging wheels *

omnibus Omnibus may refer to: Film and television * ''Omnibus'' (film) * Omnibus (broadcast), a compilation of Radio or TV episodes * ''Omnibus'' (UK TV series), an arts-based documentary programme * ''Omnibus'' (U.S. TV series), an educational progr ...

* bullock cart * pantechnicon van * Park drag * phaeton (carriage) * postchaise * pulka * railway * rockaway (carriage) * sled * sledge * sleigh *

stagecoach A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are draw ...

* streetcar * sulky * tangah *

team boat A team boat, horse boat, or horse ferry, is a watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill, which serves as a horse engine. Team boats were popular as ferries in the United States from the mid-1810s to the 1850s. Types The ...

* telega * towboat * travois *

trolley Trolley may refer to: Vehicles and components * Tram, or trolley or streetcar, a rail vehicle that runs on tramway tracks * Trolleybus, or trolley, an electric bus drawing power from overhead wires using trolley poles ** Trolleytruck, a trolleyb ...

* van * vardo * Victoria (carriage) * vis-a-vis (carriage) * wagon * wain

References

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