Zebra lover

01/12/2022

Closely related to horses, zebras have thick bodies, thin legs, a tufted tail, and a long head and neck sporting a short mane. And their most famous feature? Their brilliant black-and-white striped coat, of course!

29/11/2022

When you think about going 65kmph in a car, it’s pretty fast and incredible that they can run up to that speed.

29/11/2022

The Grevy's zebra now live in Ethiopia and northern Kenya, there are three main types of zebra, but the Grévy's zebra has declined in numbers at around 54% since the 1980s, where the population was estimated at 5,800. Today the population is at approximately 2,000. Over the years the numbers have severely decreased due to many reasons, from habitat loss and competing with other grazers to sadly being hunted for their skins.

21/11/2022

09/11/2022

Zebra Stripes Are Most Likely a Form of Pest Control
Scientists have debated this most important question for 150 years. Theories have ranged from camouflage to throw off predators, to ways of signaling members of their species, and methods of regulating their temperature. But the most likely theory, according to research, is much less glamorous. It turns out that zebra stripes are a form of pest control: they protect zebras from biting flies. By comparing zebras to horses, their closest living relative, scientists found that horses were bitten by flies disproportionately more often than zebras under the same conditions, leading them to conclude that those amazing stripes are more than just decoration.