Zebra black and white at birth. Plains and mountain zebra foals are protected by their mothers, as well as the head stallion and the other mares in their group. Grévy's zebra foals have only their mother as a regular protector, since, as noted above, Grévy's zebra groups often disband after a few months. Attempts have been made to train zebras for riding, since they have better resistance than horses to African diseases. While occasionally successful, most of these attempts failed due to the zebra's more unpredictable nature and tendency to panic under stress. For this reason, zebra-mules or zebroids (crosses between
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