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Where is mama’s head? They say the zebra stripes, when bunched together in a herd, confuse predators.
The colt is quite young, about a month old.
Chief’s Island, Botswana
8 responses to “Nursing Zebra Illusion”
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Mama’s head is facing us and the other zebra’s head is behind her back. True, it is a confusing image but we are perhaps smarter than the predators. 😉
A fascinating photo with beautiful colours. The are zebra’s mother-child dance is delightful!
The bird has a good position, eating away the insects I imagine.
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vennettaj, funny, and the baby’s head is attached to the mother’s stomach too!
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Usualy with a zebra, it is ambiguous as to whether the decoration is a white background with black stripes or vice versa.
With this family there is no question – there are brown stripes between the black stripes on a white background – compare with e.g. your Zambian Zebra [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/5883770862/in/photostream]
This would seem to indicate that this family lives further south – tircolored markings like this get rarer the further north you go. Supposedly they (used to?) exist in Kenya and Ethiopia but I never saw one
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