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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Mountain Zebras
Mountain Zebras
How To Tell The difference? If you look closely, you'll notice that there are actually many different kinds of zebras. You can tell a Mountain Zebra by its wider stripes and the longer hair on the end of its tail
What They Eat?
The mountain
zebra is an herbivore. It mainly eats grass but will sometimes eat
other types of plants. Mountain zebras
like green plants with many leave over darker plants. Mountain zebras also find a spot where many
minerals are and will lick it to get
the minerals. Also, mountain zebras
eat bark and stems of plants. They also eat nuts, grains, and
seeds.( See
food below on left)
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Mountain zebras inhabit the
mountainous regions of South Africa and Namibia. The can be found up to 6560 feet in the
mountains but move lower in the winter.
The Hartmann's mountain zebra inhabits the dry area in the mountains
on the edge of the Namib Desert.
Body Length: 220 cm / 7.3 ft.
Shoulder Height: 120-130 cm /
4-4.3 ft.
Tail Length: 50 cm / 20 in.
Weight: 260-370 kg / 572-814
lb.
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Mountain
Zebra Social Structure
Mountain
zebra are most active in the early morning and late afternoon. They spend up to
half of the daylight hours feeding. Mountain zebra live in herds consisting of
one adult male (stallion), one to five adult females (mares) and their young.
The stallion is the dominant member of the herd. Sometimes herds come together
to form temporary groups of up to 30 individuals.
Mountain
zebra never form the large herds characteristic of Plains zebra, however, they
do exhibit a harem-type social system. During the winter they move up to 20 kilometers
from a water source. Where they are in danger of being hunted, Mountain zebra
water at night, however, when they are not in danger of being hunted, they
water at any time.
Senses
Zebra
have very good eyesight during the day and night. They have good vision in the
front and can probably see in color. They also have excellent hearing that can
hear sounds from far away. Mountain zebra also have great sense of taste and
can notice differences in there food.
I got my
information from http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/wildlife/zebra/zebra_mountain.html
And I got
all my pictures from the web
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