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When I arrived at Belfast Zoo (18 March 2011), as soon as I saw the zebras I remembered a picture I saw in the early 90s (either in a competition or a book); of a Zebra crossing a zebra crossing. It was one of the most graphical and memorable images I'd ever seen and it has never really left me. I deliberately took a dozen or so pictures of the zebras, especially walking (for obvious reasons), to recreate this image.
Selecting the zebra was a nightmare and I won't tell you how long it look me to select it (I only have CS2 and therefore it was time consuming). I drew the zebra crossing in Publisher and copied it into CS2, added noise and 'splatter' to create a tarmac effect and lightened the blacks a little to make it stand out from the black background. I've left a little colour in the zebra (it really was dirty!) and I am really pleased with the final result.
All comments very welcome indeed.
Thanks for looking.
Andrew.
A Grevy's Zebra chooses a single blade of grass to to pick and eat with impressive precision. Apparently all grass does not taste the same.
Grevy's Zebra are the largest of three Zebra species with less than 3,000 left in the wild
In mid July my wife and I visited the Wilds in Cumberland Ohio, and took one of their open air Safari Tours of the park.
The Wilds sits on 10,000 aches of land that was strip mined in the 60's then reclaimed and donated to form one of our countries largest wildlife conservation areas. It is home to endangered species from around the world.
This is my third set of photos of some of the animals and sights at this wonderful conservation park.
The Grévy's Zebra (Equus gravy), also known as the Imperial Zebra, is the largest extant wild equid and the largest and most endangered of the three species of zebra. The Grévy's zebra lives in semi-arid grasslands in Kenya and Ethiopia.
The Bronx Zoo, located within the Bronx Park, is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, comprising 265 acres of parklands and naturalistic habitats and home to over 4,000 animals. Focused on conservation, it opened on November 8, 1899, with 22 exhibits, 843 animals. The zoo's origins date back to 1895, with the establishment of the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), renamed Wild Conservation Society (WCS) in 1993. Only the outer structure of the World of Reptiles remains much as it was in 1899. With the 1941 opening of African Plains, the Bronx Zoo was one of the first U.S. zoos to move away from cages and exhibit animals in naturalistic habitats.
Look who's new at the zoo! Brevard Zoo has new Grevy's zebra being acclimated to their new exhibit, and being introduced to their new exhibit-mates, the white rhinos! Grand opening on Saturday, February 14, 2015. Copyright Audrey R. Smith, 2015.
The Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), also known as the imperial zebra, is the largest extant wild equid and the largest and most endangered of the three species of zebra, the other two being the plains zebra and the mountain zebra. Named after Jules Grévy, it is the sole extant member of the subgenus Dolichohippus. The Grévy's zebra is found in Kenya and Ethiopia. Compared with other zebras, it is tall, has large ears, and its stripes are narrower. It is more ass-like in appearance as compared to other zebras, which are more horse-like.
The Grévy's zebra lives in semi-arid grasslands where it feeds on grasses, legumes, and browse; it can survive up to five days without water. It differs from the other zebra species in that it does not live in harems and has few long-lasting social bonds. Male territoriality and mother–foal relationships form the basis of the social system of the Grévy's zebra. This zebra is considered to be endangered. Its population has declined from 15,000 to 3,000 since the 1970s. However, as of 2008 the population is stable.
Marwell Hall was built in the early 14th century (around 1320) by Walter Woodlock, a relative of the Bishop of Winchester. It was a timber-framed structure of the type known as a base cruck, in size about 8 metres by 13 metres. Over the centuries many alterations have been made, but the original medieval hall remains as the core of the building.
In the mid 1500s ownership passed to the Seymour family. Henry VIII is said to have been a frequent visitor. Local legend likes us to believe that he and his third wife, Jane Seymour, were married here. Jane Seymour's son, Edward VI, is said to have visited the Hall, and the Royal arms and the initials E.R. can be seen carved over the fireplace in the Hall.
There are many stories of ghostly happenings in and around the Hall. Probably the most famous is the story of the ‘Mistletoe Bride'. On her wedding day, while playing hide and seek with her groom and guests, the bride hid in an oak chest in a remote corner of the hall. She was unable to get out of the self-locking chest. The groom and guests searched high and low, but her cries were not heard and her remains were found many years later. It is the wedding guests who can be heard frantically rushing around the corridors searching for the missing bride.
In 1644 Marwell Hall was the scene of a skirmish between Roundheads and Cavaliers. A newsletter of the time relates that a party of about 200 Cavaliers, having spent much of the day drinking in Winchester, rode out to Marwell to engage a troop of sixty of Sir William Waller's men. In spite of outnumbering the Roundheads by more than three to one, they were routed, and fled back to Winchester.
In the middle of the nineteenth century (1841 to 1852) Marwell Hall was owned by a gentleman by the name of John Gully. He survived, but lost, a 64 round boxing match (before the days of the Queensberry rules), trained racehorses at Danebury (but not, it seems at Marwell), had two wives, twenty -four children, and became MP for Pontefract.
For some forty years, from 1798 onwards, the Hall was occupied by the Long family. William Long, in about 1816, made considerable alterations to the Hall during this time, resulting in the building that stands here today.
Marwell Wildlife, formerly known as Marwell Zoological Park, is a 140-acre (57 ha) zoo situated at Owslebury in the English county of Hampshire, near Winchester. It is home to over 1,200 animals of 235 different species, and in 2007 was voted by Hampshire residents in an online poll as the place they were most proud of.
Beyond the park itself, Marwell Wildlife is also a registered charity that works for international conservation, with a particular focus in Africa in addition to work from its base in Hampshire. Its name was changed from Marwell Zoo in 2009 to reflect these wider activities.
The zoo is in The South Downs National Park which is England's newest National Park, having become fully operational on 1 April 2011. The park, covering an area of 1,627 square kilometres (628 sq mi) in southern England, stretches for 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. The national park covers not only the chalk ridge of the South Downs, with its celebrated chalk downland landscape that culminates in the iconic chalky white cliffs of Beachy Head, but also a substantial part of a separate physiographic region, the western Weald, with its heavily wooded sandstone and clay hills and vales. The South Downs Way spans the entire length of the park and is the only National Trail that lies wholly within a national park.
A week-old Grevy’s zebra foal showed off a full set of teeth while keeping close to his mother, Mekeda, this morning at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The male foal was born on Feb. 26 and is one of two youngsters keeping up with the herd at the Safari Park. The other baby who is also a male was born yesterday. The newest foal is the 86th Grevy’s zebra born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
Each birth at the Safari Park is significant, since the wild Grevy’s zebra’s population has been ravaged by anthrax outbreaks, dropping its ranks to an estimated wild population of 2,250. San Diego Zoo Global is a member of the Grevy’s Zebra Trust, an independent wildlife conservation organization in Kenya, and its researchers are working with other conservation groups to help preserve the population.
The endangered Grévy's zebra wandering the plains of Ol Pejeta, Kenya. This was the only Grévy's we saw in ten days...
27 April 2014 | | Bedfordshire | ZSL Whipsnade Zoo | IMAGE © Rob Cadd 2014 | robcaddphotography.co.uk | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Grevy's Zebras were once quite widely distributed in the Horn of Africa, in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, their former presence in Eritrea and Djibouti is uncertain but they may have occurred there, now they are classified as endangered, the largest wild populations are in Kenya, otherwise just a handful survive on the Alledeghi Plain near Awash National Park in Ethiopia and in the south of the country on the Kenya border, the species has been extirpated in Somalia.
In 1882 during the Scramble for Africa when the European powers were dividing up the continent, the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II rightly concerned that Italy had their eyes on his country, wanted to be friends with France, he sent one of these zebras to the then President of France, a Monsieur Jules Grevy, the animal died soon after its arrival and was sent to a museum, a French zoologist Émile Oustalet, noted that it was a different species of zebra that he had not seen before, so he named it Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi).
In fact the Zebra sent to France in 1882 was not the first in Europe, these zebras were known to the Romans and imported to be displayed in their arenas, they knew them as hippotigris, which literally translates as horse-tiger. That the Romans were able to obtain Grevy's Zebras, does suggest that at the time, they must have been found further north, at least as far as the Red Sea coast in Eritrea or perhaps even Sudan
Zebras, horses and wild asses are all equids. Zebras have horse-like bodies, but their manes are made of short, erect hair, their tails are tufted at the tip and their coats are striped.
No animal has a more distinctive coat than the zebra. Each animal's stripes are as unique as fingerprints—no two are exactly alike. Zebras are social animals that spend time in herds. They graze together, and even groom one another.
There are three species of zebra:
1. Burchell's or the plains zebra is most common.
2. The mountain zebra
3,Grévy's zebra is the largest type
Each has its own general pattern. The stripes act as camouflage. The patterns make it difficult for predators to identify just one animal from a running herd, and can distort distance, and may also help zebras recognize one another because of their uniqueness.
They have excellent hearing and eyesight and can run at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour and a powerful kick that can cause serious injury to a predator, like a lion.
Pix.by.PegiSue
Taken @ SanDiegoZoo/Safari Park
A day-old male Grevy’s zebra stretched his legs and ran next to his mother this morning at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The newborn foal, born yesterday, is one of two youngsters in the Grevy’s zebra herd at the Safari Park. The other foal, also a male, is just over a week old and was born on Feb. 26. The two foals are already running throughout the grassy habitat and staying close to the rest of the herd at the Safari Park.
"Once they hit the ground, within a short period of time they are ready to run," said Jeff Gross, senior keeper at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. "Their main form of staying alive (in the wild) is actually being able to keep up with the herd, so the importance of being able to move about, move quickly, and stay close to mother who is very protective is very important."
A zebra foal can tell his mother apart from other zebras in the herd and knows to stay close to her by memorizing her unique stripe pattern. The memorization happens just after a zebra is born and is called imprinting. Grevy’s zebras have the skinniest stripes of any zebra species; the stripes run all the way down their back to a white belly.
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park has had 86 Grevy's zebra births. Each birth at the Safari Park is significant, since the wild Grevy’s zebra population has been ravaged by anthrax outbreaks, dropping its ranks to an estimated wild population of 2,250. San Diego Zoo Global is a member of the Grevy’s Zebra Trust, an independent wildlife conservation organization in Kenya, and its researchers are working with other conservation groups to help preserve the population.
Guests visiting the Safari Park can see the two youngsters, as well as the rest of the Grevy’s zebra herd, from the Africa Tram ride, a guided tram tour that takes guests around the Safari Park’s African field exhibits and gives guests a chance to connect with wildlife on a closer level.
Joe took this shot with my camera at the LA Zoo while I was occupied elsewhere. I thought he did very well. I am not going to post the picture he took of Zebra manure though. What a funny guy...
And now for the facts:
Grevy's zebra is the largest of all wild equines. It is found in the wild in Kenya and Ethiopia. Ancient Romans used Grevy's Zebras in their circuses.
They are considered endangered due to hunting for its skin, habitat destruction, human encroachment on watering holes, and competition with domestic grazing animals.
Zebras, horses and wild asses are all equids. Zebras have horse-like bodies, but their manes are made of short, erect hair, their tails are tufted at the tip and their coats are striped.
No animal has a more distinctive coat than the zebra. Each animal's stripes are as unique as fingerprints—no two are exactly alike. Zebras are social animals that spend time in herds. They graze together, and even groom one another.
There are three species of zebra:
1. Burchell's or the plains zebra is most common.
2. The mountain zebra
3,Grévy's zebra is the largest type
Each has its own general pattern. The stripes act as camouflage. The patterns make it difficult for predators to identify just one animal from a running herd, and can distort distance, and may also help zebras recognize one another because of their uniqueness.
They have excellent hearing and eyesight and can run at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour and a powerful kick that can cause serious injury to a predator, like a lion.
Hope you enjoy!
Pix.by.PegiSue www.flickr.com/photos/pix-by-pegisue/
Taken @ San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA