Zebra herbs, twigs, leaves and bark. Their digestive systems allow them to subsist on diets of lower nutritional quality than that necessary for other herbivores. Female zebras mature earlier than the males, and a mare may have her first foal by the age of three. Males are not able to breed until the age of five or six. Mares may give birth to one foal every twelve months. She nurses the foal for up to a year. Like horses, zebras are able to stand, walk and suckle shortly after they are born. A zebra foal is brown and white instead of
Trichopelma zebra segments are chestnut-brown. The abdomen is purplish-brown, with five grey stripes running backward and five median grey spots. It is 17 mm (including chelicerae). The maxillae and labium are spinulose. It lacks a rastellum on the chelicerae. All tarsal scopulae are bisected longitudinally. Trichopelma zebra Trichopelma zebra is a species of ischnocoline tarantula, known from Panama. Trichopelma zebra was first described by Alexander Petrunkevitch in 1925, under the name of "Merothele zebra", a new genus he erected for the species, and which he placed in the Barychelidae family. In 1985, Robert Raven made "Mesothele" a junior synonym of "Trichopelma", saying