. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 4'20 THE ODD-TOED ANIMALS. Africa nor any part of the Congo district, with the exception of the remotest southeastern portion. The Quagga is found to the north of Cape Colony, in the Kalahari and German possessions in south- western Africa to the Cunene, as well as in the Transvaal. Burchell's and Chapman's Zebras occur nearer to the Zambesi and the Cunene. The Zebra, on the contrary, preferring a mountainous country, has a far wider range than its
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 4'20 THE ODD-TOED ANIMALS. Africa nor any part of the Congo district, with the exception of the remotest southeastern portion. The Quagga is found to the north of Cape Colony, in the Kalahari and German possessions in south- western Africa to the Cunene, as well as in the Transvaal. Burchell's and Chapman's Zebras occur nearer to the Zambesi and the Cunene. The Zebra, on the contrary, preferring a mountainous country, has a far wider range than its relatives: in Cape Colony it maintains its foothold to the present day and to the north it penetrates as far as Benguela in the west, and to about the twelfth parallel of south latitude in the east. The Zebras live gregariously. Generally they are seen in groups of ten to thirty; but there are many accounts of herds of them numbering hundreds which when seen were probably in the act of migrat- ing. Every different species is always met apart from other species of the same family. Perhaps one species of Zebra fears the other; but it is not afraid of other animals. Thus all observers agree that Quagga herds nearly always contain Spring-boks, Gnus, Ostriches and. also Buffalos. Ostriches in particular are said to be the constant companions of this species of wild Horse, doubtless because the latter derive greater benefit from the wariness and vigilance of those gigantic birds. All Zebras are exceedingly fleet, wary and timid animals. They scour over hill and dale with wind- like rapidity. A well-mounted rider finds it not so very difficult to overtake a compact body of fleeing Zebras, though a single individual easily es- capes the swiftest rider. It is said that when the pursuer succeeds in scattering the herd and separat- ing the foals from their mothers, the young Quaggas become willing captives and follow the Horses as they did their mothers. There seems to exist a certain fr
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