Plains zebra
Equus quagga / Plains zebra
- Habitat
- Savannahs and other grasslands
- Continent
- Africa
- Food
- Grasses
- Gestation/breeding period
- 12 months
- Mode of life
- partly huge herds of harems and groups of stallions
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Perissodactyla
Key facts
~ 1.40 m
size
200 - 300 kg
weight
~ 30 years
age
How endangered are Plains zebras?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
- Least concern
-
Near threatened Near threatened - Vulnerable
- Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
Did you know?
The plains zebra reacts to the stripe patterns of members of its own species and can distinguish them by this.
Plains zebra on the zoo tour
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