the mountain-zebra of the cape-country (Equus zebra zebra) has a short mane, its reason-color is white.
The hard-man-mountain-zebra (Equus zebra hard-manna) from southwest-Africa against it clearly has one itself against the withers of pausing Stehmähne. its reason-color is sallow-white. The black strips are narrower and therefore more numerous than with the Nominatrasse.
Physique The withers-height amounts to 125 cm, the weight 270 kg. The mountain-zebra is the smallest zebra-type. its proportions are donkey-good. The short, clumsy head carries long, pointed ears. Differently, a small dewlap, a downward hanging skin-rag, is from other zebra-types at the neck.
Neck and torso carry numerous narrow black strips, that proceed to the longitudinal-axis crosswise. The stomach is ungestreift. On the croup, the Querstreifung is enough up to the tail-root. Over the clubs, a conspicuous border to the differently directional Beinstreifung proceeds. The legs are down curled up to the hooves crosswise.
The hooves are extremely hard. its form is like like with donkeys narrow and high. The hooves are on tried on stony underground the life.
Habitat Mountain-zebras live in dry, stony mountain and hill-country. They are even at sheer hillsides. In southwest-Africa, the hard-man-mountain-zebras penetrate a sparse plant-growth into the desert of the coast-region before, if after precipitations sprouts.
Way of life Mountain-zebras form small herds, that more than 12 animals rarely include. At water-places, larger accumulations can occur of course. The troops usually consist something of females, foals and one for itself away from stationary males.
The individual animals of a herd hold among each other relatively big distances. An animal of the herd earns a sentry on an elevated point and warns its Artgenossen with an along-drawing near danger. At the escape, mountain-zebras very much certainly move in steep terrain. Adult males live separated on the herds at times. Is mountain-zebras place-scatters, however they hike big routes on the search of water. In its dry biotopes, they can endure several days long without water-reception.
They open its main-activity in the early mornings - and late afternoon-hours. During the most severe day-heat, they rest in the sparse shadow of a thornbush.
The voice of the mountain-zebras becomes as toneless, snorting Wiehern described. The voice-contact-tone between mare and foals resembles the neighing the house-horse.
They appear intolerable because of the big individual-distance, to which mountain-zebra keeps among each other, opposite Artgenossen. With its hikes, they can meet at the water-places and pasture-reasons in the level with steppe-zebras.
Lions are the most important animal enemies of the mountain-zebras.
Reproduction Normally, an adult stallion comes together with a mare only when it is steed-y. With the combination-prelude, the mare of the more intensively advertising partners seems to be. Outside the combination-time, males and females seek to expel each other through bites.
After a Tragzeit of 345-375 days, the foal was born. It can follow the mother already on the first life-day.
Endangering The cape-mountain-zebra approach already the extermination, however the continuances recovered again thanks to intensive precautions. The continuance-numbers still are sufficiently low, however. Also the hard-man-mountain-zebra went back strongly in its continuance in the last 20 years.
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