Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim1896breh (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
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THE HORSES—ZEBRA GROL 1\ 419 Characteris- The Quagga (Equus quagga) shows a tics of the greater similitude to the Horse than Quagga. to the Ass in its outward appear- ance, though it is much inferior in beauty to the Dauvv. The body is of very pleasing outline, the head is moderately large and graceful, the ears are short, the legs strong. A short, erect mane adorns the whole length of the neck; the tail is hairy from the root and longer than that of the other varieties of the Zebras, though considerably shorter than that of the Horse. In respect to the rest of its hairy cover- ing the Quagga resembles the latter—the hair is short and lies close to the body. The ground-color is a brown tint, dark on the head, lighter on the back, the crupper and the flanks; the abdomen, the inner face of the thighs, and the hair of the tail are pure The Dauw Nearest Rurch ell's Zebra, or the Dauw Kinsman of the (Equus buirlicllii), is undoubtedly the Horse. noblest member of the whole family, because it shows the greatest resemblance to the Horse in appearance, being scarcely smaller than the Quagga. The soft, sleek coat is of a sorrel color above, and white underneath. Fourteen small black stripes commence at the nostrils. Along the spine runs a black band edged with white; the neck is marked by ten broad, black and sometimes forked stripes; the legs are usually of a plain white color. Peculiarities The Zebra ( Equus zebra) has much of the Ze- the same physical proportions as the ora- Dauw, but is striped all over the body, and thereby readily distinguished from that animal. Its conformation is approximate to that of
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THE ZEBRA. — This species of the Horse family, once common in south Africa, is now found there in much decreased numbers. It is the most perfectly striped of all the family, not only heme marked on the body but also on the lei>s. down to the hoofs. The group in the picture is shown running, rolling and romping in true Horse fashion. (Equus zt/>m.) white. Grayish white stripes, dashed with a reddish tint, run across the head, neck and shoulders; on fore- head and temples they are longitudinal and lie close together, and on the cheeks they run transversely and at greater intervals. Between the eyes and the mouth they form a triangle. The neck contains ten such stripes which are continued in the mane also; the shoulders have four and the body a few more, which become shorter and paler as they approach nearer the hindquarters. Along the entire spine, back to the tail, runs a blackish-brown band, bordered along its edges with reddish gray. The ears are covered with white hairs on the inside, the outside being yellowish white and marked with one dark brown band. The sexes resemble each other very much, the female being somewhat smaller and possessed of a shorter tail. The adult male attains a length of eighty inches, or one hundred and four inches including the tail; the height at the withers is about fifty-two inches. the Ass rather than to the Horse, reminding one most of the Dziggetai. The body, supported on slender, well-shaped limbs, is stout and vigorous, the neck is arched, the head short, the muzzle large and somewhat obtuse, the tail of moderate length, for the greater part overgrown with short hair but hav- ing long hair only toward its lower extremity, thus resembling an Ass' tail;' the mane is thick, but very short. Transverse stripes of a lustrous black or reddish brown hue run on a white or light yellowish ground, from the muzzle to the hoofs; only the pos- terior part of the abdomen and the inner sides of the upper parts of the legs are free from stripes. The dark, brown-black, longitudinal stripe on the back is also conspicuous. Range and Habits The real native country of the Ze- of the Ze- bras is southern and eastern Africa; bras. they arc not found within the narrower equatorial regions of the western half of

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