I am confused by this because Blackpool Zoo themselves said on Facebook and Twitter earlier this month that a new male zebra had arrived from Germany (see link below) and I know they only have one group of zebras. I was there yesterday and believe I saw the stallion separated from the two females. Animal update! Our... | Facebook
is it just me or does this subspecies of zebra usually have a natural brownish look? or is it simply dust?
Mountain Zebra mhale you may be correct, it was the imformation that i recived from, from a senior member of staff at Marwell,it could well be that the imformation the said person read at Marwell has not been updated. I would agree also that in general that they do have a brownish look 2 them.
Obviously Blackpool have acquired a stallion since the ISIS and other species listings records were last updated. Keeping him seperate would be normal for a newly arrived animal. Maybe Marwell will borrow one of the males from the other 3 UK holders (Paignton,Blackpool, Linton). It would depend on their relatedness to Marwell's three females of course.
They do. The ground colour is almost cream, rather than pure white as in Plains or Grevy Zebras. The Hartmann's zebras at Paignton are pink(!) however- due to the 'Red Devonian' soil of their paddock.
Mountain Zebra Marwell are in the process of reciving a Male poss from a UK collection,as one of the collections is importing a new male.
A stallion has arrived from germany at Blackpool a few weeks ago; he made attemps to mate with the females recently.The big problem in the european population of mountain zebras are to less old and exprienced stallions. You can't keep older females together with much younger males, they will not accept him. Two young males were killed in the last years from older females ! A german zoo had to stop keeping mountain zebras, because no male which is old enough, was available for their single female, so they send her to austria. Another problem is, no zoo wants to keep male groups, and the population is not growing, because they are to less breeding males ! The best option is to keep more bachelor groups, so the males can became older and can collect experiences during their playful fights with other males. But no one is keeping male groups, just one zoo in germany is keeping two males. The male from Blackpool came from this zoo, it was born in munich and has lived a few years in a male group. Now he is old enough for the females at Blackpool...
Very interesting observations. I know they can be rather 'bad tempered' creatures and seem to prefer their own space a bit. It seems there is a shortage of adult stallions too. I wonder where Marwell's male will come from.
