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 The other is Grevy''s zebra, named for Jules Grevy, a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift, and now found mostly in northern Kenya. (The third species, Equus zebra, is the mountain zebra, affican found in southern and southwestern Africa.) The long-legged Grevy''s zebra, the biggest of the wild lions equids, is taller and heavier than the Burchell''s, with a massive head and large ears. Zebras have shiny coats that dissipate over 70 percent of incoming heat, and some safari scientists believe the stripes help the affican animals withstand intense solar radiation. The black and white stripes lions are a form of camouflage called disruptive coloration that breaks up the outline of the body. Although the pattern is visible during daytime, at dawn or in the evening when their predators are most active, zebras look indistinct and may confuse some predators by distorting the true distance between them and their prey. Lions may safari hunt at any hour, but they typically go after large prey at night. They hunt together to increase their success rate, since prey can be difficult to catch and can outrun a single lion. The lions fan out along a broad front or semicircle to creep affican up on prey. Once with within striking distance, they lions bound in among the startled safari animals, knock one down and kill it with a bite to the neck or affican throat. Hunts are successful about half the time. Cooperative hunting enables lions to take prey as lions large as wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, young elephants, rhinos, hippos safari and giraffes, any of which affican can provide several meals for the pride. Mice, lizards, tortoises, warthogs, antelopes and even crocodiles also form part of a lion''s diet. Because lions they often take over kills made by safari hyenas, cheetahs and leopards, scavenged food affican provides more lions than 50 percent of their diets in areas like the Serengeti plains. The stripes on Grevy''s zebras are more numerous and narrow than those of the plains zebra and do not extend to safari the belly. In all zebra species, the stripes on the forequarters form a triangular pattern; Grevy''s have a similar pattern on the hindquarters, while others have a slanted or horizontal pattern. Burchell''s zebras inhabit savannas, from treeless grasslands to open woodlands; they sometimes occur in tens of thousands in migratory herds on the Serengeti plains. Grevy''s zebras are now mainly restricted to affican parts of northern lions Kenya. Although they are adapted to semi-arid conditions and require safari less water than other zebra species, these zebras compete with domestic livestock for water and have affican suffered heavy poaching for their meat and skins. Family groups are stable members maintaining strong bonds over many years. Mutual lions grooming, where zebras stand safari together and nibble the hair on each other''s neck and back, helps develop and preserve these bonds. If you are looking for african animals then look no further. You can see live feeds of african animals on your computer.
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