Selous' Zebra

Selous' Zebra

Selous' Zebra

Chapman's Zebra

Chapman's Zebra

Chapman's Zebra

Crawshay's zebra

Crawshay's zebras

2 Crawshay's Zebras

Maneless Zebra

Maneless Zebra

Maneless Zebra Picture

Grant's zebra

Grant's zebra

Grant's zebra

Burchell's zebra

Burchell's zebra

Image: Burchell's zebra

Quagga

Quagga

Quagga

Plains Zebra

Plains Zebra

Plains Zebra

Young Zebra vs African Lioness

Zebra Wins!!! 

Fun facts You Should Know about Zebra

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You can never mistake a zebra for another animal with its unique black and white stripes.  Every zebra has its own set of stripes that will always be different from the rest. This is very similar to our own fingerprints.  They eat grasses, leaves, fruits, and roots. Zebras tend to stay in herds and even group themselves into different families in a herd. The zebra family usually consists of a male, some females, and their offspring. Zebras can run 40 miles per hour and their young can already run an hour after they are born. There are three different zebra species: the Plains, Grevy’s, and the Mountains Zebra.

Facts about the Three Zebra Species

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 The zebra is a lovely and wild animal that is native to Africa. Its black and white stripes are unique to each zebra and works like a human’s fingerprint. There are three species of zebras: the Mountain Zebra, the Plains Zebra, and the Grevy’s Zebra. Both the plains and mountain zebras have horse-like features while the Grevy’s is very similar to an ass. The plains zebra is the most common type of zebra and has 12 subspecies. The Grevy’s are rare and wild zebras. They are also the largest. The Grevy’s and the Mountain zebras are endangered. This is caused by the destruction of their natural habitat and hunting.

Loving the Animals of Africa and its Zebras

Picture: Zebras in Africa

There is an old African folktale called “how the zebra got its stripes”. It talks about the first zebras and donkeys were still brother and sisters, but one day the king of all the animals invited the two brothers to a feast. Naturally the two brothers also wanted to join the feast; the only problem is that they had plain brown hides. Then they planned to beautify themselves by painting each other, zebra got to go first so donkey painted him with black and white stripes, but when he finished his brother quickly ran away and did not come back. They became bitter enemies and that is why zebras and donkeys have their colors today.

Zebra Noises

Evolution of Environments and Animals are Epic

The elephant, the rhino, man and the zebra can all be found in the cradle of life called Africa. Some now believe, with the use of paleontology and anthropology that all of humanity came from one place, Africa. Our ancestors, those who first stood upright and walked with two legs spread all over the earth during the ice age. This was the time of nomads and scarce resources, which is one of the reasons why the earliest human beings first ventured forth from the world and reached every corner of the globe. Adapting to changing environments and even crossing great oceans to what we are today indeed they were the greatest pioneers of history.

The lost quagga and man

quagga

The Quagga is a subspecies of the plains zebra, they were indigenously found in the Highveld of the Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State in South Africa. They are distinguished from zebras because of the differences of their hides; the common zebra had a black and white stripe pattern and the cages only had that pattern on the front part of the body, in the mid section the stripes faded and became wider until the rear became plain brown. They were known to move in great numbers and were totally wiped out in the late 19th century, thus they were added to the hall of man’s folly.