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Etosha National Park, Namibia
The plains zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchellii), also known as the common zebra or Burchell's zebra, or locally as the "quagga"[2] (not to be confused with the extinct subspecies), is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra, and wild perissodactyl (odd-toed ungulate).[3] It ranges from the south of Ethiopia through East Africa to as far south as Botswana and eastern South Africa. The plains zebra remains common in game reserves, but is threatened by human activities such as hunting for its meat and hide, as well as competition with livestock and encroachment by farming on much of its habitat.
The Plains Zebra is also known as the Common Zebra. All Zebras have individual markings with no two alike.
I felt like pulling one from my Africa archives. Taken in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe in October 2013.
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Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Zebras belong to the genus Equus which also includes horses and asses. In sub-Saharan Africa there are three main zebra species, Plains zebra, Grevy's zebra and Mountain zebra. A fourth species, the quagga, became extinct over 100 years ago.
The Plains zebra have several sub-species, of which the Burchell's zebra is the type seen in the Kruger National Park bushveld. Burchell's zebra is named after the British botanist and naturalist William John Burchell.
Every zebra has a stripe pattern which is as unique as a fingerprint. The Burchell's zebra, with its pale shadow stripe between the dark black and white, has vertical stripes on the front half of the body, and horizontal stripes on the back half. One theory is that the striping pattern, which also allows zebras to recognize each other, may afford them some camouflage. In the low light of dusk and dawn, the time of greatest predator activity, the patterning makes their outline indistinct, allowing them to blend into the background. It is also thought that the blurring of stripes in a herd of running zebra makes it difficult for predators to focus on a single animal within the group.
Plains zebras are social animals, often seen standing nose to tail mutually grooming each other. They live in small family groups known as harems. Each harem is led by one stallion controlling a few mares and their foals. Even when zebras join to form large herds, these family groupings remain intact. Until they are of the age to form their own harem, young males, which leave the herd at adolescence, tend to live alone or in small bachelor groups. These young, strong males sometimes become harem stallions by abducting females in oestrus.
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I know I should have gotten the tail in the frame as well but I didn't and I thought the scene was too cute not to post.
ewww... zebra junk. So the one with the junk, on the right-- he's the one who was just born when i left last year. sheesh!! now he's HUGE! and i hear he has a 'tude that rivals that of wilbur's. ooh, equines.
Zebra.
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A follow up to my last B&W zebra posting with another view of the same herd.
Kruger National Park
Mpumalanga
South Africa
Rietvlei - a 3800 hectare nature reserve - is looking magnificent after the recent heavy summer rains and is covered with yellow and purple flowers.
Created for Art Week Gallery theme “Animal art”
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Big top – Wombo
Circus poster – Stock photo
Zebra – Pexels www.pexels.com/photo/zebra-in-grayscale-photography-619863/
Zebra variations – Dall-e 2
Grass and Sky – Stock photos
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Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana
Humans have long had a fascination with zebras, from failed attempts to domesticise these feisty equids to depictions of their vivid black and white stripes in art, fashion or design. Studies show that the animals are in fact black, with white stripes forming later in development. A San folktale tells how the zebra was white but acquired black stripes as a result of falling into fire sticks after a fight with a baboon. This photograph, taken in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, shows two plains zebras.
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