ZEBRA, the name of several animals, na tives of Africa, belonging to the family of the horses. The zebra belongs to the same general type as the ass, distinguished from Eosins (the horse) proper by smaller size and by having the body more or less banded black upon yellow ish. The forelegs only possess the "warts.' seen in both fore- and hind-legs in the horses: and the tail is 'tufted.' The typical or rr-oun tain zebra (Equals zebra) inhabits South Africa. but it is now almost extinct. A fcw specimens, however, are strictly preserved in the mountain ous districts of eastern Cape Colony. where, un til about 1875, they abounded in herds on the plains. The body is cream-colored, its charaz teristic bands being deep black The stripes are drawn at right angles to the axis of the body. The legs are striped right down to the hoof, but the under part of the body has no stripes. The neck bears a faint development o: skin or dew-lap, and the mane is very short The animal was long considered untamable, "-.::
experiments made since 1872 base shown that with proper treatment it can be made to we rk well in harness. Any general utilization and improvement of it, however, seems impracti cable. The dauw, or Burchill's zebra (Frew.: bare/it/O. is higher and more graceful than the true zebra and is the one commonly seen If- menageries. Its stripes are narrower and some what differently disposed from those of the true zebra, and extend under the belly. but are absent from the lower part of the legs. It has been driven northward, and is now rare even in the Transvaal. Chapmann's zebra (E. chaposanni) is another variety, found from Bechuanaland north to the Sudan. Grevy's zebra (E. grerfie) is restricted to Abyssinia and Somaliland. The quagga (q.v.) is a near ally of the zebras. Con sult Lydekker. 'Royal Natural History' (VoL II, London 1895); Tegetmeier and Sutherland, 'Horses, Zebras, Mules and Mule-breeding' (London 1895).