Although the image of the zebra graze leisurely on the vast dry grasslands across Africa have become extremely close to a lot of people, but few know is that thanks to the stripes on the body that zebra escaped the pursuit of the blood-sucking insects.
The interesting thing about zebras
Although the image of the zebra graze leisurely on the vast dry grasslands across Africa have become extremely close to a lot of people, but few know is that thanks to the stripes on the body that zebra escaped the pursuit of the blood-sucking insects.
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Zebras live mainly in Africa
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Animal zebra group of odd-toed hooves like horses and donkeys. Thanks to this design features zebra can accelerate and run faster on the hard rock terrain.
When the zebras move in packs, the stripes on their body will make the predators can hardly distinguish each individual child to catch.
Especially as each zebras have stripes style and spacing of the stripes on the body is different. In fact, those living farther zebras southern African region, the distance between the stripes will increasingly wider. In addition, the special patterns that zebras can escape the manhunt of the blood-sucking insects.
Although the overall look of the herd, the zebras superficially quite similar, but each vignette stripes on the body of each child are very different and are used to identify like human fingerprints.
Typically, the height of an adult zebra will from 112-147 cm (from the shoulder to the heel). And depending on the species, their weight will be from 175-384 kg. Males have greater than 10% weight compared to children.
In the family horseback Grevy zebras are the largest wild. In the natural environment, the longevity of the zebra is between 20-30 years, even if they were in the zoo, they can live up to 40 years.
Favorite foods are grasses zebra hard and sometimes the leaves, providing nutritious meals 30% of them daily. Zebra can live in each small and family can gather into large flocks.
Although the speed of the zebra (maximum 56 km / h) slower than the other horses, but with strong stamina, we can run distances than the other horse breeds.
When hunted, Zebra will dance along zich zig, an enemy that can hardly leaned forward to sterile. When driven to an impasse, Zebra will not hesitate jumping forward, leaped rocks, even those who are chasing their bite.
Where gathered abundant food source throughout the year such as the Ngorongoro in Tanzania, zebras often settle in one place. And in areas where depleted food sources during the dry season as the Serengeti in Tanzania, zebras families will gather into large flocks migrating to go looking for food sources. Migrant journey and returned to their homeland Serengeti usually lasts 800 km / year.
Water is considered a vital element of the zebra. The oldest horse in the herd will be responsible for commanding the herd moved from this area to other areas, but make sure never to drink away from the area.
In general, the main living zebra in the African region. In it, plain zebras live on the large lawn around the continent. Mountain zebra living on hot dry mountains south Africa like Angola, Namibia and South Africa. Grevy zebra South Africa chose as Kenya and Ethiopia to live.
Especially, zebras usually live together with antelope herd, in order to increase the strength to fight against aggressive predators.
However, now the zebra populations are rapidly declining due to hunting and sports activities zebra skin trade and both victims as habitat encroachment by humans. Even water survival zebra species are also grazing herds of large scale and the demand for water for agricultural irrigation robbed.
Although, in the past 2 centuries, man has made efforts to tame zebras but apparently this effort has not been successful. In ancient Roman times, Grevy's zebra used to be trained to pull the cart.
