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Transcript: Threats The zebra's biggest threats are habitat loss due to ranching and farming and competition for water with livestock. They are also hunted for their skins. In the range of the Grevy's zebra, where survival of young is linked to the availability of forage, climate change is exacerbating droughts on already-degraded rangeland. Droughts also force the animals to congregate at remaining water sources, increasing the incidence of disease transmission. http://www.defenders.org/zebra/basic-facts https://www.google.com/ www.answers.com Black and White and Black and White By: Jasmine Bock Population Overall, plains zebras number at around 750,000. Historically, there were over 15,000 Grevy's zebras. However, there are only about 2,500 remaining today. There are 600-700 cape mountain zebras and around 800-1300 Hartmann's mountain zebras in the wild. References Range Plains zebra are found on the savannas from Sudan to northern Zimbabwe in eastern Africa. Grevy's zebras are now mostly restricted to parts of northern Kenya. Mountain zebras occur in southwestern Africa with cape mountain zebras in South Africa and Hartmann's mountain zebras in Namibia and Angola. Diet Zebras are herbivorous and primarily eat a variety of grasses. They are also known to eat shrubs, herbs, twigs, leaves and bark. Zebra Reproduction Mating Season: Year round and based on species. Gestation: 12-13 months. Litter size: 1 foal. Zebra foals are born with brown and white stripes as opposed to black and white stripes. Mares generally keep all other zebras away for 2-3 days until her foal recognizes her by sight, voice and smell. _______________ Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae sub family :Equine Genus: Equus species: Perissodactyla Zebras are in The Mammamilia Kingdom "Mammals" http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/zebra.html Zebra's are a very intresting creature. Every one of them is different in some way. It is unusual how their are about 750,000 zebra's, but none of them look the same. It is also unusual how zebra's stand up when they sleep. Zebra's are a very unique creature. Behavior Zebras as very social animals and live in large groups called 'harems.' Plains and mountain zebras live in harems that are made up of one stallion and up to six mares and their young, while Grevy's zebras come together as groups for short periods of time. Sometimes herds come together to form temporary groups of up to 30 members. Zebras sleep standing up, and only when they are in groups that can warn them of danger. If they spot a predator, they will bark or whinny loudly to warn the others in the group.