The Zebra (Equus) is a genus of black (or dark brown) and white vertically striped wild horses, or horse-like mammals, found in Africa. There are currently three surviving species of Zebra: The Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) found in northern Kenya and Somalia; The Mountain Zebra found in south-west Africa which has two sub-species: The Cape Mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra) and the Hartmann's mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae); the Common Zebra, also known as the Plains Zebra or Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchelli or Equus quagga) found in east and South Africa. A fourth species, the quagga became extinct during the 1870's. Zebras are social animals living in herds and mixing freely with other grazing animals on the open savanahs of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, this interaction between animals is believed to be for mutual defence against predators. The Zebra have acute hearing, gnu which often mix with them have a good sense of smell and Ostrich which are also often to be found in the area have very good vision.
When a Zebra is born its stripes are usually more brown than black, and become darker with age. Research Zebra More pictures of Zebra
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