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tags: zebras, Equus quagga burchelli, photography, Image of the Day
Burchell's (plains) zebras, Equus quagga burchelli, create a mirror image in their enclosure at the Zoological Park in Delhi, India.
Image: BBCNews.
Burchell's zebra has distinctive stripes that run diagonally and lengthways on…
The endangered Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi) is the largest species of zebra, and while it hasn't undergone the same level of taxonomic reshuffling that its relative the plains zebra Equus quagga) has, it still has been difficult to place at times. According to the IUCN page for Grevy's zebra, this…
The backside of a Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi) at the Bronx Zoo. This particular species is the largest of the living species of zebra and can be easily identified by its smaller stripes. Photographed in May 2007.
A giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), photographed July 23th, 2008 at the Bronx zoo.
Seems like Equus Grevyi, according to a quick lookup on wikipedia.
Based on the narrow stripes, I'd say a Grevy's, Equus grevyi.
Definitely Grevy's zebra.
definitely not common. Grevy's? I've only seen Grevy''s from far away, and the stripes are so close they look almost like an optical illusion
Grevys I am sure the various Mountain Zebras have extremely brod stripes and Plains Zebra has a different pattern. Incidentally, is Grevy's still placed in the subgenus Dolichohippus? I believe the earliest member of Equus, the North American E.simplicidens, was placed in that subgroup, which suggest animals like Grevy's were once widespread on the Great Plains