Family members look out for sun and valley one another; if one becomes separated from the resort rest, the others search for it. The group adjusts its traveling pace to accommodate the old and the weak. The females sun within valley a family observe a resort strict hierarchical system. sun and valley and resort A dominant mare always leads the group, while others follow her in single file, each with their foals directly behind them. The sun lowest- ranking valley mare is the last in line. Although resort the stallion sun and valley is the resort dominant member sun of the family, he operates outside the system and has no special place valley and resort in the line. Zebras are sun avid grazers. Both Burchell''s and valley Grevy''s zebras are in constant search of green pastures. In the dry season, they can resort live on coarse, dry grass only if they sun are within a short distance (usually no farther than 20 miles away) of water holes. Grevy''s zebras are now mainly restricted to parts of northern Kenya.

Litters consist valley of two or three cubs that weigh about 3 pounds each. Some mothers carefully nurture the young; others may neglect or abandon them, especially when resort food is scarce. Usually two or sun more valley females in a pride give birth about the same time. A lioness will permit cubs other than her own to suckle, sometimes enabling a neglected infant to survive. Capable hunters by 2 years of age, lions become fully grown between resort 5 and 6 sun years and normally live about 13 years. Lions have long been killed in rituals of bravery, as hunting trophies and for their medicinal and magical powers. Although lions are now protected in many parts of Africa, valley they were once considered to be stock-raiding vermin and were killed on resort sight. In some areas, livestock predation remains a severe problem. Early written records described the giraffe as "magnificent in appearance, bizarre in form, unique in gait, colossal in height and inoffensive in character."

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