Evening on the 27th of December 2017 finds us at Mountain Zebra National Park, where the battle to save the Cape Mountain Zebra from the brink of extinction was fought and won.
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Hello guys. The Cape Mountain Zebra looks smaller than Burchell’s and also somehow seems to have more clearly defined black and white ‘stripes.’
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Hi Kim! You are quite correct. The Mountain Zebra is smaller than the Burchell’s, or Plains, Zebra, and has a red tinge to the nose, a small dewlap beneath the throat, a grid iron pattern on its back at the base of the tail, stripes that don’t go all the way around the belly, and no shadow stripes like the Plains Zebra does.
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Great photo, and good luck on your journey!
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Thanks Cayenne! We’re almost at the end of our itinerary though – almost three weeks of road trip through South Africa’s wild places behind us…
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