Laila0407's List: Everything About Zebras

• horses and donkeys,
• Contest’s Honorable Mentions
• camouflage devices that help zebras hide well in the grass
• herbivorous and primarily eat a variety of grasses.
• shrubs, herbs, twigs, leaves and bark
• plains zebras
• 750,000.
• Grevy's zebras.
• were over 15,000
• 600-700 cape mountain zebras
• about 2,500 remaining today.
• 800-1300 Hartmann's mountain zebras

• wild.

  Rang
• Sudan to northern Zimbabwe in eastern Africa
• found on the savannas
• Plains zebra
• Grevy's zebras
• ccur in southwestern Africa with cape mountain zebras in South Africa and Hartmann's mountain zebras in Namibia and Angola.
• Mountain zebras o
• restricted to parts of northern Kenya
• very social animals
• large groups called 'harems.'
• harems
• zebras
• Plains and mountain
• one stallion and up to six mares
• their young,
• Grevy's zebras come together as groups for short periods
• herds come together to form temporary groups of up to 30 members
• sleep standing up
• they are in groups that can warn them of danger
• spot a predator
• warn the
• bark or whinny loudly
• others
• Year round
• 12-13 months
• 1 foal
• opposed to black and white stripes
• foals are born with brown and white stripes
• Mares generally keep all other zebras away for 2-3 days
• foal recognizes her by sight, voice
• smell.
• zebra's biggest threats are habitat loss
• farming and competition for water with livestock
• hunted for their skins.
• the Grevy's zebra
• survival of young is
• climate change is exacerbating
• linked to the availability of forage
• droughts on already-degraded rangeland.
• Droughts also force the animals to congregate at remaining water sources
• increasing
• incidence of disease

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• males and the females live up to 35 years
• 300 to 320 kg for both
• similar in size.
• harem. A harem consists of 1 dominant male
• females and their young
• The bachelor herd consists of only males which often follow the different harems around at a safe distance. Males will occasionally leave their bachelor herds to join up with the harem to challenge the dominant male for his females.
• one or the other gives up
• lot of kicking and biting
• grazers, often feedings along with wildebeest

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• similar to horses
• zebras are black and white
• only four to five feet tall
• shorter than our average male
• mostly
• leaves
• anything
• shrubs
• grass
• come across
• eat grass, shrubs, twigs,
• not meat
• • zebras + horses = very similar 
• Africa
• wild zebras only live on one continent
• ebras live in zoos
• not that common
• • zebras = shorter than average male
    
• adaptable to their habitat
• mad they press back their ears.
• don’t like
• big groups
• people
• not adapted to them
• • adaptable to their habitat

  • aren't too common, not a very large population

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