Alpha's ABC's Featured Character October 2nd 2011

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"Zack Zebra"

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Alpha's Featured Character For Today October 2nd 2011 

Here are a few interesting Zebra facts:

There is no mistaking what you're seeing when you spot a horse like animal with black-and-white stripes: it's a zebra. And each zebra has its own unique pattern of those distinctive stripes, just as humans have their own unique pattern of fingerprints.
No two sets of stripes or fingerprints are exactly the same. Zebras may even use stripe patterns to help them recognize different individuals.
Scientists have several theories about other reasons zebras have stripes. Camouflage leads the list. Stripes make a herd of zebras look confusing to a predator, especially when they are moving, and particularly at sunrise and sunset. 
It is very hard to tell where one zebra ends and another one begins when they are all bunched together like this in a herd. If a predator, let's say a lion can't pick out an individual zebra to zero in on for a kill, it's less likely to succeed in bringing one down for a meal.
If a zebra is picked out of a herd by a predator such as a lion, leopard, hyena, or cheetah, its main defense after running, is a few powerful kicks with its hind legs.
The Zebra's main diet is grass. They also eat bark and leaves, as well as buds, fruit, and roots. They graze during the day, making sure they stick together in their herd.

As with horses, male zebras are called stallions, females are mares, and the young are called foals.

When a Zebra is munching out, it uses its sharper front teeth to bite the grass, and then uses its back teeth to crush and grind. A zebra's teeth keep growing for its entire life, because constant eating and chewing wears them down.

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