Black and White Beauties

So I am a zebra fanatic. I love them, don't exactly know why, but all I know is that they are my favorite animal. The pattern of the black and white draws me in maybe because no other animal has that. I mean if had black and white stripes I would definitely be flaunting that around, no question about it. This post is going to be about "real" zebras and not just about the lovely PillowPet that I have.

Zebras are included in the horse family as African Equids. They have a very distinct pattern, GO FIGURE, but the interesting part is that no pattern is exactly the same. Maybe the stripe are a bit larger or thinner, or maybe the color is different than the most common black.  The technical term for the stripes is "zebra crossing". Something that I did not know about zebras are that they can actually tell who is who by the structure if thir stripes. Zebras have better eyesight than dogs that is for sure. Supposedly they can see all of the colors that we can see. When you think of how we humans communicate you think of us talking and voice inflections, well so do zebras. They use whines and screeched to get the attention of others in the group.

I have seen zebras at the fair and at the petting zoos, but I  would like to see them in their natural habitat. I bet they would look so cool and majestic out in the open. Then I could see the different stripe shapes and the different types of social behaviors they have. I definitely would like to stand in the middle, well maybe not the middle, more of to the side, of a herd of zebras and see what happens. How they play, how they move, how they flirt, how they everything. It would a once in a lifetime experience.

I now know one thing I am going to do before I die. Go to a grassland and watch zebras for hours. I will write down everything that I see and put lots of pictures up and write a day-to-day diary of reactions. Wish me luck and hope that I don't forget to do this in the future!