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
Mountain zebra Mountain zebra The mountain zebra ("Equus zebra") is a species in the family Equidae. It is native to south-western Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. The mountain zebra comprises two subspecies: In 2004, C. P. Groves and C. H. Bell investigated the taxonomy of the zebras (genus "Equus", subgenus "Hippotigris"). They concluded that the mountain zebra ("Equus zebra zebra") and Hartmann's mountain zebra ("Equus zebra hartmannea") are distinct, and suggested that the two would be better classified as separate species, "Equus zebra" and "Equus hartmannae". However, in a sexual genetic study that included 295 mountain zebra specimens, Moodley and Harley (2005)