. The Penycuik experiments. Matopo. experiments did not prove a complete failure. By carefullystudying the habits of the zebra mares and Matopo all thedifficulties have been practically overcome; he no longerreminds one of the proverb, You may lead a horse to thewater, but you cannot make him drink. I need only addthat the zebra horse, though low at the withers, stands b THE PENYCDIK EXPERIMENTS. nearly thirteen hands high ; that he is beautifully marked,and in his form and movements suggests a horse far morethan either of the mountain zebras ; further, his actionwhen trotting is even more per
. The Penycuik experiments. Matopo. experiments did not prove a complete failure. By carefullystudying the habits of the zebra mares and Matopo all thedifficulties have been practically overcome; he no longerreminds one of the proverb, You may lead a horse to thewater, but you cannot make him drink. I need only addthat the zebra horse, though low at the withers, stands b THE PENYCDIK EXPERIMENTS. nearly thirteen hands high ; that he is beautifully marked,and in his form and movements suggests a horse far morethan either of the mountain zebras ; further, his actionwhen trotting is even more perfect than that of his stablecompanion the high-class Arab horse Benazrek. Mulatto (Fig. 2), the dam of Romulus, is a West High-land pony, thirteen hands (52 inches) high. Lord ArthurCecil, who has taken a lively interest in the iuvestiga- FiG. 2. Mulatto,tious from the outset, first intended sending a couple ofNew Forest ponies. After further consideration he, forvarious reasons, selected Mulatto; this has proved afortunate selection. Apart from the all-important factthat Mulatto has produced a foal to the zebra, she is inmany ways pre-eminently suitable for the experiments inhand. From information kindly supplied by his lordship,it appears that the breed to which her sire belongs hasbeen for many years all but completely isolated on the THE BIRTH OF A ZEBRA HYBRID. / Island of Rum, a suiall island lying between the mainlandof Scotland and the Outer Hebrides. As far as is known,fresh blood has only once been introduced during recenttimes into the Island of Rum. This was in 1848, whenthe then proprietor of the island, the late Marquis ofSalisbury, sent to Rum a stallion belonging, it is believed,to the characteristic West Highland strain. Mulattosdam came from the Long Island (Outer Hebrides), butshe belonged to the same breed
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