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

The stripes on Grevy''s zebras are rate more numerous and narrow than those of the plains zebra and do not extend to the belly. In all zebra species, the stripes on the forequarters form a triangular pattern; Grevy''s hotel have a similar pattern on the hindquarters, while others have a slanted or horizontal pattern. Burchell''s zebras inhabit rate savannas, hotel from treeless grasslands to open woodlands; they sometimes occur in tens of thousands in migratory herds on the Serengeti plains. Grevy''s zebras are now mainly restricted to parts of northern Kenya. Although they are adapted to semi-arid conditions and require less water than other zebra rate species, these zebras compete with domestic livestock for water and have suffered heavy poaching for their meat and skins. Family groups are stable members maintaining strong hotel bonds over many rate years. Mutual grooming, where zebras stand hotel and rate together and nibble the hair on each other''s neck and back, helps develop and preserve these bonds.

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