Mother zebra and her baby

Title: Mother zebra and her baby
Year: 1941
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Fulltext: THE YOUNG CITIZEN AuGUST, 1941 MOTHER ZEBRA AND HER BABY WHAT a pretty animal is Mother Zebra with her striped coat! And what a pretty little creature is Baby Zebra! Zebras live in Africa. They. belong to the horse family but are smaller than horses. These animals live together in small herds. They like company and are often seen with ostriches on the desert. The ostrich has very good eyes and can see danger a long way off. The zebra· has a very keen sense of smell and can smell danger a long way off. So they help each other. Zeb'ras can run very fast and. their black and white striped coats make it hard to see them. Their hind legs are very strong and they have been known · to fight off lions with them. The stripes of the zebra extend down even to the hoofs. They look as if they had been painted on the animal, so even ly are they placed .. Of course the food· of the �ebra is the same as that of the horse-grass when liv ing in a wild state and hay and grain when living in captivity. Sometimes . zebras in captivity are trained to dra\v small vehicles. Even in ancient times chariots were sometimes drawn by four or six or even eight zebras. A baby zebra is called a colt.