30-04-2012
I am quite surprised that my Linton Zoo photograph has generated so many comments.
However, following on from the points raised:-
I well remember the Hartmann’s mountain zebra at London Zoo in the early days of the Cotton Terraces. (Equids were well represented then as, in addition to the mountain zebra, there were also Grevy’s zebra, plains zebra, onager and Przewalski’s horse - plus lots of other ungulates too; how times change!) As Jordan has already pointed out, London Zoo’s Hartmann’s mountain zebra were transferred to Whipsnade in 1969.
Hartmann’s mountain zebra were kept again at London Zoo during the nineteen eighties; as Ian has mentioned these were sent to Paignton. (This was in 1991.)
There were certainly Hartmann’s mountain zebra at Whipsnade in the nineteen fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties but I don’t think that there were any there into the nineties.
Jordan mentions the animal “Pippa”; the studbook shows she was born at Marwell, was sent to Whipsnade, then transferred to London, then to Paignton and finally returned back to Marwell.
Lastly it is worth mentioning that although I’ve always known Hartmann’s mountain zebra as a sub-species, Colin Groves considers that Cape mountain zebra and Hartmann’s mountain zebra are two distinct species.
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