Mountain Zebra 



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7000 feet in altitude, where snow and severe frosts are experienced during 

 the South African winter, is a beast of very hardy habit and constitution. 

 Yet occasionally the weather is so severe among the Cape mountains that 

 even the tough zebra succumbs. It is not very long since several of these 

 animals were found dead upon the mountains near Cradock after severe 

 weather. This zebra is assuredly one of the most active and daring of all 

 the equine race. The way it gets about the rugged and precipitous 

 mountains among which it shelters is, as I can personally testify, perfectly 



Fig. 13.— BackofMountai 

 Specimen in Rowland Wa 



amazing, and it can gallop easily up and down most break-neck-looking 

 places with a facility and recklessness which can only have been evolved 

 after long centuries of mountain life. My own experience of this 

 extremely interesting beast in the wild state was gained a good many years 

 ago in a range of the Cape Colony known as the Witteberg, lying between 

 Graaff Reinet and the coast line, a little to the north-westward of the 

 Great Winterhoek. In this wild and little frequented piece of country one 

 troop of mountain zebras remained. 



