BURCHELL'S ZEBRA 



brown, becoming paler on the limbs and darker on 

 the head. The illustration of this foal shows up the 

 black stripes, which are comparatively few in number. 

 A cross between a donkey stallion and a Zebra mare 

 would produce a hybrid more or less similar to this 

 foal. But it happens this mare did not come in 

 contact with any donkeys. It was one of a troop 

 of wild Zebras living on the crest of a range of high, 

 stony mountains. The troop does not scatter, and 

 any donkey stallion which might have had the 

 courage to venture into the haunts of these Zebras 

 would have been bitten and kicked to death by the 

 Zebra stallion leader of the troop. This is no theory : 

 I know it to be so from observation. Should a 

 donkey ■ stallion appear in sight, the Zebra leader 

 will leave the troop and give chase and kill his 

 would-be rival. In this particular instance, the 

 troop of Zebras lived on the distant mountains, and 

 the nearest donkeys were on a farm many miles 

 away. There can be little if any doubt that this 

 foal is a reversion to a donkey-like ancestral type. 



BURCHELL'S ZEBRA 



(Equus burchelli) 



Iqwara of Amaxosa ; Idube of Zulus and Swazis ; Makwa of 

 Basutos ; Pcetsee of Bechuanas. 



Burchell's Zebra, or Quagga, as it is generally 

 called by colonists, inhabits all parts of South Africa 



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