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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
In East Africa, north to the Northern Guaso Nyiro, the 
most plentiful big animal next to the hartebeest was the 
common zebra—not the very uncommon and narrowly 
limited mountain zebra of South Africa, but the bonte- 
quagga, which is found in a dozen different forms from the 
Orange River to beyond the equator. 
The zebra is eminently gregarious. Of course, an occa¬ 
sional stallion is found by himself, usually an immature, a 
weak, or an aged animal. But ordinarily zebras are found 
in herds of from a dozen to a couple of hundred; and, more¬ 
over, half the time there are other animals mixed in with 
these herds—hartebeests, wildebeests, oryxes, elands, gazelles, 
or ostriches. Each herd is usually under the leadership of 
a master stallion. 
Zebras are vicious fighters. Against a lion they make 
no fight at all, and against man they are only dangerous in 
the sense that a bull moose or wapiti is dangerous; that is, 
they will bite viciously if approached when wounded; and on 
rare occasions when crippled and brought to a standstill, 
but not wholly disabled, they will charge at the hunter from 
a distance of several rods. We, personally, have never 
known one do more than skin its teeth at us as we ap¬ 
proached it when on the ground, or perhaps as we galloped 
through a herd after some more desirable game; but Mr. 
Stewart Edward White was regularly charged. It would be 
interesting to know whether zebras can stand off wild 
hounds—those inveterate enemies of other game. We 
once saw a zebra make a race at a wild hound which 
had trotted near by, and drive it off, although the pied 
hunter did not seem much frightened; and Loring saw 
a zebra standing with two wild hounds near by to which it 
