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ZEBRA
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PLUIE DE COULEURS
The unique stripes of zebras
make them one of the animals
most familiar to people. They
occur in a variety of habitats,
such as grasslands, savannas,
woodlands, thorny scrublands,
mountains, and coastal hills.
However, various anthropogenic
factors have had a severe
impact on zebra populations,
in particular hunting for skins
and habitat destruction. Grévy’s
zebra and the mountain zebra
are endangered. While plains
zebras are much more plentiful,
one subspecies, the quagga,
became extinct in the late
19th century – though there
is currently a plan, called the
Quagga Project, that aims
to breed zebras that are
phenotypically similar to the
quagga in a process called
breeding back.
THERE ARE THREE SPECIES
OF ZEBRAS: THE PLAINS
ZEBRA, THE GRÉVY’S ZEBRA
AND THE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA.
THE PLAINS ZEBRA AND THE
MOUNTAIN ZEBRA BELONG TO
THE SUBGENUS HIPPOTIGRIS,
BUT GRÉVY’S ZEBRA IS THE
SOLE SPECIES OF SUBGENUS
DOLICHOHIPPUS. THE LATTER
RESEMBLES AN ASS, TO WHICH
IT IS CLOSELY RELATED, WHILE
THE FORMER TWO ARE MORE
HORSE-LIKE. ALL THREE BELONG
TO THE GENUS EQUUS, ALONG
WITH OTHER LIVING EQUIDS.
