Their stripes perhaps serve to dazzle and confuse predators and biting insects, or to control the animal’s body heat. And their most famous feature? Their brilliant black-and-white striped coat, of course!Ĥ) So why do zebras have stripes? Well, scientists aren’t entirely sure.
The Grevy’s zebra can be found in dry, semi-desert areas of Kenya and Ethiopia, and the mountain zebra lives in mountainous and hilly habitats in Namibia, Angola and South Africa.ģ) Closely related to horses, zebras have thick bodies, thin legs, a tufted tail, and a long head and neck sporting a short mane. Mountain zebra: Vulnerableġ) Our planet is home to three different species of zebra, the plains zebra, Grevy’s zebra and mountain zebra, all three species are native to Africa.Ģ) The most common species is the plains zebra, which roams grasslands and woodland of eastern and southern Africa. IUCN status: Plains zebra: Least Concern. Goody says Zoe had a wonderful last day on Earth, wandering in the pasture with her buddy, Patti – grazing and playing – before she slipped away in the early morning hours.We’re off to Africa to meet one of nature’s coolest looking creatures. She was a zebra through and through, not a horse with stripes. That is not to say she was not a zebra and zebras are not pets! She taunted the dogs along the fence line and would have certainly tried to kill them had they gotten into the pasture. She trained easily to come to her pen and go out without giving us trouble.
Ann says she was easy going – for a zebra.
Meanwhile, Zoe will be remembered fondly by the 12,000 visitors who saw her while she lived at the Kona ranch, especially those who took care of her. Tissue samples were collected after Zoe passed, at the request of several scientists who will be researching her genes to see if they can learn how her rare color is expressed and where it can be found. “Of course, it is a mistake,” Goody says, “as they are breeding brother-to-sister and daughter-to-father with the potential to create birth defects that will worsen with each close breeding.” Goody says there is now a small herd in Africa being deliberately bred for this rare color. Zoe was the only golden zebra on Earth, at least until she was 11 years old. Goody says that at one time, the sanctuary was offered “one million dollars by a man in Texas who wanted her for her hide to hang in the entryway of his new home.” Three Ring Ranch turned him down. Oreo, and then Zoe, are the reason Three Ring Ranch exists. No one would ever dream that Oreo would give birth to this rare, colored creature but later we learned that in her 9 foals she had given birth to a stillborn blond and one that lived until it was sold and killed for its hide. Zoe was born August 1998, in the capture pen that first night after Oreo and a group of zebra entered to get hay. (Zoe’s) mother, Oreo, was a zebra mare rescued from the old Molokai Safari Park after it had closed down. Goody talked about how Zoe came into the world in a newsletter shared with Three Ring Ranch supporters: Ranch curator Ann Goody said having the animal “was as close to living with a unicorn as you can get.” Geneticists told her that the zebra’s color variant is found in about one in 3.5 million zebra births. (BIVN) – Zoe, the golden zebra who lived at the Three Ring Ranch Exotic Animal Sanctuary, passed away on Sunday.
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