So Colchester isn't recognizing the subspecies borensis and treats the Maneless Zebras as a 'variotype' of boehmi....but manages to get the spelling wrong ['bohmi'].
Also note the use of 'grants zebra' (instead of Grant's zebra).
A case of zoo miseducation....
(And of course most taxonomists would nowadays use Equus quagga rather than Equus burchellii)
So Colchester isn't recognizing the subspecies borensis and treats the Maneless Zebras as a 'variotype' of boehmi....but manages to get the spelling wrong ['bohmi'].
Also note the use of 'grants zebra' (instead of Grant's zebra).
A case of zoo miseducation....
(And of course most taxonomists would nowadays use Equus quagga rather than Equus burchellii)
Does the word 'variotype' mean anything to 99% of Colchester's visitors?
(Though many of them, going by a recent visit, might qualify as being variotypes of Homo sapiens. Perhaps H. sapiens var chavoides.....)
I thought you would love that sign MikeG glad to see that I was spot on with my guess,in fact it was discussed at the time with my fellow zoonerds just what a cock up they had made of it!
