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MAMMALIA. 
That it is impossible to reduce this quadruped to a domestic 
state is currently believed. In contradiction, we would state 
that a female Zebra, which had been caught young, and sent by 
the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope to the Jardin des Plantes 
in Paris, was so tractable that it allowed itself to be approached 
and led almost as readily as a Horse. 
Fig. 63. — The Zebra ( Equus Zebra , Linn.). 
