I don't have this postcard but I have several others of Cape Mountain Zebra at London. One shows this same mare(striping pattern identical) with a different(zebra)foal. If they didn't breed pure Mountain zebra maybe the foal was also a hybrid-with Plains zebra.
As mentioned above, this same mare appears also to have had another -fully striped- foal, presumably fathered by a Zebra. Was this foal a Mountain x burchell's cross perhaps?
I don't have this postcard but I have several others of Cape Mountain Zebra at London. One shows this same mare(striping pattern identical) with a different(zebra)foal. If they didn't breed pure Mountain zebra maybe the foal was also a hybrid-with Plains zebra.
As mentioned above, this same mare appears also to have had another -fully striped- foal, presumably fathered by a Zebra. Was this foal a Mountain x burchell's cross perhaps?
Yes, I too have a postcard depicting the mountain zebra mare with her hybrid foal (plains x mountain zebra); presumably this is the hybrid between a male Chapman’s zebra and a female mountain zebra that was born at London Zoo on 17th June 1915.
(Incidentally, I also have a postcard from the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie, Paris, depicting a mountain x plains zebra hybrid.)
Most Zoos I know keep the Grevy's stallions seperated from the mares and let them together only for breeding. This is the most common breeding behaviour of that species in nature, most Grevy stallions do live by themselfs in their own territory.
The stallions of mountain and common zebras live all the time together with some mares and their foals.
I remember reading some years ago in the the SD zoo magarzine that the Grevy's zebras were moved out of the main african exhibit area and into a new paddock just for them due to them being agro with other species who also lived in the same exhibit
Yes, I too have a postcard depicting the mountain zebra mare with her hybrid foal (plains x mountain zebra); presumably this is the hybrid between a male Chapman’s zebra and a female mountain zebra that was born at London Zoo on 17th June 1915.
So during that era they produced at least the following hybrids;
Somali Ass x Mountain Zebra.
Somali Ass x Chapman's zebra
Chapman's zebra x Mountain Zebra.
I always thought the zebra foal in that postcard looked more like a Plains zebra foal. But I hadn't realised the mother of both hybrids was the same until I looked at her closely though.
I remember reading some years ago in the the SD zoo magarzine that the Grevy's zebras were moved out of the main african exhibit area and into a new paddock just for them due to them being agro with other species who also lived in the same exhibit
