-* Zebras 



" The shyest animal in Africa," a writer has described 

 the zebra. Nothing could be more inaccurate. " It is the 

 tamest," Mr. F. G. Jackson (the best-known English 

 judge of the East African fauna) answered me laconically 

 when I told him of this opinion in the year 1896. 



As I have constantly to insist, animals only become 

 shy when they are hunted. And where only natives have 



THE WAY IN WHICH THE COLOURING OF THE ZEBRAS BLENDED WITH 

 THEIR SURROUNDINGS IN THE MIMOSA-WOOD WAS VERY RE- 

 MARKABLE 



hunted and the \ animals have had no experience of long- 

 range rifles, European hunters have no difficulty in 

 getting easy shots at big game. Afterwards the animals 

 very soon learn to alter their conduct. 



I found zebras to be quite among the most trusting 

 animals of West Africa ; the sight of large crowds of 

 these beautiful beasts on the wide plains may well be 



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