ZEBRAS
Zebras come in many species such as the Plains Zebra, Grevy Zebras and Mountain Zebras.
Plains Zebras have 26 stripes per side, Grevys Zebras have 80 stripes per side and Mountain Zebras have 43 stripes per side.
There are around 750,000 Plains Zebras in existence at the moment 2,500 Grevys and around 600-700 mountain Zebras.
All together that’s around 753,200 Zebras in existence at the moment - more or less.
These Zebras can run 60KPH max, faster than you can or do go in a car on the way to school!
These amazing creatures do have names, the females are called fillies, males are called colts and babies (before you know what they are going to be) are called foals, they normally have one foal at a time, occasionally they have twins.
These beasts are meat eaters but if prey is scarce they revert to cannibalism- the weaker ones of the pack give their flesh to the stronger ones of the group!
Lots of Zebras live in zoos but most live in Africa that includes mountains, scrublands, hills and woodlands, and the animal they are closest to horses.
Hi R11, I had no idea that different types of zebras have a different amount of stripes on them. Also I would not like to be a zebra if there was a shortage of food!! Great informative report. You have used paragraphs really well to group your bundles of information.
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