. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. l68 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD. GREVY'S ZEBRA Tbh species of zebra come from the Galla country^ and has narrower and more numerous stripes than the mountain-zebra being black and the muzzle bright brown. Both hind and fore legs are banded down to the hoofs. The stripes on the neck and body are narrower and more numerous than in Burchell's zebra, and on the hindquarters the median stripe, which runs down the centre of the back from the mane to the tail, is connected with the uppermost of the oblique longitudinal stripes by a series of short horizontal ba
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. l68 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD. GREVY'S ZEBRA Tbh species of zebra come from the Galla country^ and has narrower and more numerous stripes than the mountain-zebra being black and the muzzle bright brown. Both hind and fore legs are banded down to the hoofs. The stripes on the neck and body are narrower and more numerous than in Burchell's zebra, and on the hindquarters the median stripe, which runs down the centre of the back from the mane to the tail, is connected with the uppermost of the oblique longitudinal stripes by a series of short horizontal bars. The ears in this species are much larger than in Burchell's zebra. The true zebra seems never to have been an in- habitant of the plains, like all its congeners, but to have confined its range entirely to mountainous districts. Speaking on this point. Captain (after- wards Sir) Cornwallis Harris wrote upwards of sixty years ago: " This beautiful and wary animal never of its own free will descends into the plain, as erroneously asserted by all natural- ists, and it therefore never herds with either of its congeners, the quagga and Burchell's zebra, whose habitat is equally limited to the open and level lowlands. Seeking the wildest and most sequestered spots, the haughty troops are exceedingly difficult of approach, as well on account of their watchful habits and extreme agility and fleetness of foot, as from the abrupt and inaccessible nature of their highland ; An allied species, of which examples have been obtained by Mr. G. W. Penrice, occurs in Benguela, Portuguese West Africa. I once saw the carcase of a zebra stallion which had beeh sent by rail to the Cape Town Museum by a farmer living in the neighbourhood of the village of Worcester. This animal had come down from the mountains, and joined a troop of donkeys running on the farm. Its intrusion was, however, resented by a male donkey, which fought with and overpowered it, and, having seized it with it
Size: 1841px × 1357px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorco, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectmammals
