And in addition to Grevy's zebra, Chapman's zebra and Hartmann's mountain zebra, Marwell also has Somali wild ass and Przewalski's horse too so there is a good equid collection.
Wow! Quite the set! I do adore Przewalski's horses as I feel they're underestimated and overlooked in most collections but I have never seen Somali Wild Ass before!
Tierpark Berlin, as TLD once put it, has 'the complete set of equine taxa'. It's cool to see them, especially the Kiang and Kulan. EDIT: *at the species level.
It is unusual for a zoo to have three zebra species and exhibiting three is something that I particularly like about Marwell. Following the classification of the family Equidae in “Ungulate Taxonomy” (Groves & Grubb; 2011) then Berlin Tierpark does not have every species as, according to this work, the Cape mountain zebra and Hartmann’s mountain zebra are two distinct species; similarly the Indian wild ass (khur) is also listed as a separate species.
You are correct of course, although I wonder if the Tierpark accepts these splits; after all, they still label their tigers as Indochinese.
Because THEY are Indochinese Tigers-the genes of the"new subspecies"Malayasian tiger are complete identical with the Indochinese ones-no diffrence between, so its the same subspecies. Mountain,-Grevy and Common Zebra are defenitily three diffrent SPECIES, so its correct to split in three By the way-also Sigean and Dvur Kralove and San Diego WAP have all three Zebra-Species, and in the past, when Zoos were Museums with living animal"collections", european zoos ( London, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bronx etc) had three zebra-species.Fortunately, these time are almost over
Nobody was suggesting that Grevy’s zebra, mountain zebra and common zebra should not be split; the discussion was on whether Cape mountain and Hartmann’s mountain zebra are different species (as per Groves and Grubb).
