Title: Big game hunting in Africa and other lands; the appearance, habits, traits of character and every detail of wild animal life ..
Identifier: biggamehuntingin00lundrich (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lundeberg, Axel; Seymour, Frederick H. A
Subjects: Hunting -- Africa; Animal behavior
Publisher: (Chicago, D. B. McCurdy
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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354 THE STORY OF THE ZEBRA. That night they had a great feast. I tasted the zebra flesh, but found it unpalatable. I had shot two fine antelopes, and although I offered my men one of the carcasses, they declined it and ate the zebra instead. The alternating yellowish-white and brown-black stripes of the zebra, which markings of the skin and hair are more pronounced than in any other of the wild animals, not excepting the tiger, give the name to the animal. Zebraed means banded, and the name is appropriate to the horse- tiger, as the zebra is sometimes called. The haunts of the animal in its natural state are among the mountainous and almost inaccessible regions of
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A FAMILY OF ZEBRAS. Southern and Eastern Africa. Shy by nature, and endowed with wonderful powers of sight, few zebras have been captured alive. The animal is rarely found alone, preferring to travel in large troops. ' The three known species of zebra, together with the quagga, form a group agreeing in essential character with the asses, but distinguished by their more or less completely striped heads and bodies. In both these groups the mane is erect, and the upper part of the tail is free from long hairs; while there are naked callosities on the fere limbs only, and the ears

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