170 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
Grevy’s zebra is, as a rule, an inhabitant of open or thinly wooded country, and it appears to 
avoid anything in the nature of thick cover. In Central Somaliland Major Swayne met with it 
on low plateaux some 2,500 feet above sea-level, the sides of which fell in broken ravines to the 
river-valleys. This country is described as broken and hilly, and here Grevy's zebras were met 
with in small droves of about half a dozen. In the country between Mount Kenia and Lake 
Rudolph, Mr. A. H. Neumann frequently met with herds of Grevy’s and Burchell’s zebras 
consorting together. The contrast between the two species when thus seen side by side was 
very marked, the former animals looking like horses among a flock of ponies. Mr. Neumann 
never observed stallions of the two species fighting together, but on the other hand he states that 
the stallions of the larger species fight viciously amongst themselves for possession of the mares. 
Grevy's zebras seem never to collect in large herds, more than twenty, or at the outside thirty, 
being very seldom seen together. 
Although this species is an inhabitant of arid plains and bare stony hills where the herbage. 
is short, it requires 
to drink daily, and. 
is never therefore. 
found at any great 
distance from water. 
The cry of Grevy’s, 
zebra is stated to be' 
quite different from 
that of Burchell’s. 
Mr. Neumann de- 
scribes it as a very” 
hoarse kind of grunt, | 
varied by something 
approaching toa 
whistle, the grunts, 
being long drawn 
out, and divided by 
the shrill whistling 
sound, as if the latter | 
were made by draw- | 
site| 
Photo hy Fi Te Newmar] [Berkhamsted ' 
THe HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD’S TEAM OF ZEBRAS_ ing in the breath. 
Mr. Rothschild was practically the first person to break in zebras to harness. At one time these which had been ex- 
animals were thought to be quite untamable pelled during the 
sustained grunt. 
Like all other species of the genus to which they belong, Grevy’s zebras, especially the mares 
when in foal, become very fat at certain seasons of the year, and their flesh is much appreciated 
both by natives and lions, the latter preying on them and their smaller congeners, Burchell’s, 
zebras, in preference to any other animal, now that the rinderpest has almost exterminated the 
great herds of buffalo which once roamed in countless numbers all over East Central Africa. 
BurcHELt’s ZEBRA once inhabited the whole of Southwestern, Southeastern, Central, and 
Eastern Africa from the Orange River to Lake Rudolph; and though it has long ceased to exist 
in the more southerly portions of its range, it is still the most numerous and the best known of 
all the species of zebra. 
The typical form of this species was first met with early last century by Dr. Burchell in 
Southern Bechuanaland. In this form the legs are white below the knees and hocks, and the 
body-stripes do not join the median stripe of the belly. In examples met with farther north 
the legs are striped down to the hoofs and the body-stripes join the belly-stripe. South of 
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