Zebra

[mma_ramotswe]

Here are a couple of mine
This is the same young 'un as PN I think


I find zebbies very photogenic...

[trailrunner]

Brilliant pics all round, keep them coming.

[Richprins]

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Nice, leachy!

Now here's the thing...below the wound you can see misalligned stripes theoretically healed after a previous attack?

Lions grab them on the buttocks and claw the skin off if another lion doesn't get to the throat while they literally run their skins off, it seems? Curious!

[Richprins]

Another interesting fact about Kruger zebra, and their wildebeest mates, is that before the Western fence was erected in the 60's-70's, depending on progress, they would migrate in large numbers out of the Park on an age-old route to the foothills of the Drakensberg (Swadini) for winter grazing and water, and return to the central district in summer!

A mini-Serengeti, if you will. Once the fence was up, lions massacred them or they died of thirst/hunger, not knowing what to do?


Dams and windmills eventually helped a bit,don't know?

Another migration also occurred, with Eastern zebra in the Satara area moving down to the Sabie river in winter, for the same reasons. I actually saw this as a child/student..utterly amazing, and it may still carry on nowadays, but downscaled due to the wet cycle/global warming...?

An interesting topic for research!

[Lisbeth]

Ask Dewi when he arrives at the Z in his new books

[Dewi]

All you ever wanted to know about Zebras.......

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=z ... i=scholart

[Amoli]

Some of my older pics..

[Flutterby]

Lovely pics Amoli!!

[Richprins]

Nice, Amoli!

Interestingly, the Plains Zebra normally have the lighter "shadow stripes" in between the others...but sometimes they have absolutely none!

[Polentswa]

Mountain Zebra

Once on the brink of Extinction..now thriving in the Mountains of the Karoo




Cold winters morning Mt Zebra National Park