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The other is Grevy''s zebra, named vacations for Jules Grevy, a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift, and now found mostly adventure in northern Kenya. (The third species, Equus zebra, is the mountain zebra, found in southern and southwestern Africa.) The long-legged Grevy''s zebra, the biggest of the wild equids, is taller and heavier than the Burchell''s, with a massive head and large ears. Zebras have shiny coats that dissipate over 70 percent of incoming heat, and some scientists believe the stripes help the animals withstand intense solar radiation. The black and white stripes are a form of vacations camouflage called disruptive coloration that breaks up adventure the outline of the body. Although the pattern is visible during daytime, at dawn or in vacations the evening when their predators adventure are most active, zebras look indistinct and may confuse some predators by distorting the true distance between them and their prey.

When a foal is born the mother keeps all other zebras (even the members of her family) away from it for 2 or 3 days, until vacations it learns to recognize adventure her by sight, voice and smell. While all foals have a close association with their mothers, the male foals are also close to their fathers. They leave their group on vacations their own accord between the ages of 1 and 4 years to join an all-male bachelor group until they are strong enough to head a family. Zebras are important prey for lions and hyenas, and to a lesser extent for hunting adventure dogs, leopards vacations and adventure cheetahs. When a family group is attacked, the members form a semicircle, face the predator and watch it, ready to bite or strike should the attack continue. If one of the family is injured the rest will often encircle it to protect it from further vacations attack.

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