Ree Park - Grassland savannah

A view across the huge open grassland savannah in Ree Park - Ebeltoft Safari, Denmark. A very nice savannah with grass, a few trees and some artificial termite mounts. Visitors can also take a Open-Jeep Safari Tour through this enclosure.
The animals in here are giraffes, maneless zebras, common elands, blue wildebeests, blesboks, ankole cattle, blackbucks and South African ostriches.
This picture is taken from one of the jeeps of the safari ride.

August 2009

I've never heard of maneless zebras. Is that a particular race, or is it just that the ostriches have plucked all the hair off your zebras?

Maneless zebras are a geographical variant of the grant's zebra by some considered a real subspecies. Six zoos in Europe co-operates in a breeding programme for maneless zebras, Ree Park being one of them.

It is easy to tell the difference between maneless and grant's zebras for as the name suggests the maneless have almost no manes.

They're very odd looking things - like one of those pictures with the eyes turned upside-down or somesuch - something's odd about them but unitl you're told you don't notice.

They're managed separately from Grant's under the name Equus quagga borensis (or E. burchelli borensis if you prefer!). I've seen them at Dvur Kralove, Wroclaw and Katowice.

http://www.zoochat.com/463/maneless-zebra-wroclaw-zoo-sept-2008-a-34624/

I find them very fascinating. Both Ree Park and Givskud Zoo in Denmark keeps these. It is probably wise to manage them separately until it is established if they are a subspecies or not

Oh, absolutely.