This last quality in fact can only be given by verification--that is, by making a zebra the subject of all the experiments performed on the horse.
Suppose our physiologist, whose experience is limited to horses, meets with a zebra for the first time,--will he suppose that this generalisation holds good for zebras also?
Thus, having settled the point in the zebraand horse, our philosopher would have great confidence in the existence of a circulation in the ass.
Darwin relates that a male zebra was once brought to England, and a hybrid race, marked by the zebra's stripes, was produced from certain mares.
Always after, the colts of those mares bore the marks of the zebra on their skins.
On the hither side I found the carcass--little more than the skeleton--of a zebra which had been killed by a couple of lions as it came to drink the previous night.
The zebra was a favorite food; but they could only get at it when it left the open plains and came among the bushes or to drink at the river.
The Palaeolithic hunters slaughtered myriads of wild horses, just as the ebony-hued hunters of Africa now slaughter the zebra and feast on its oily flesh.
The African buffalo is as readily tamed as its Asiatic brother; the zebra was as susceptible of taming as the early wild horse and ass; the eland is probably of all big ruminants the one that most readily lends itself to domestication.
As I sat and watched, a herd of zebra approached cautiously from the opposite side.
They carried bows, strung with zebra gut, and arrows of which the wooden tips were poisoned.
There were in it representatives of two species of these gaudily marked wild horses or wild asses, the common zebraand the much, bigger northern zebra with longer ears and more numerous and narrower stripes.
The zebra is conspicuously striped, and stripes cannot afford any protection in the open plains of South Africa.
It is a more significant fact that a female zebra would not admit the addresses of a male ass until he was painted so as to resemble a zebra, and then, as John Hunter remarks, "she received him very readily.
The true zebra is a native of South Africa; lives in troops, and is very swift and savage, and therefore difficult to tame.
Leopard stared, and Ethiopian stared, but all they could see were stripy shadows and blotched shadows in the forest, but never a sign of Zebra and Giraffe.
They let the Zebra and the Giraffe get up; and Zebramoved away to some little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy, and Giraffe moved off to some tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy.
Herds of zebra came into sight, while through the trees scampered monkeys in endless variety.
In the distance moved a herd of zebra and another of impalla, but this was the only indication of life that they could find.
A drove of at least a hundred zebra paused within fifty yards of them, gazing curiously, and not until Bakari flourished a spear did they whirl and dash away.
Slipping from their horses, the boys stole up gun in hand, to see a herd of at least fifty wildebeest and zebra grazing about three hundred yards off.
Once or twice the barking call of a zebra sounded from the distance, and toward morning the distant growl of a lion, but no other signs of life came to them.
Clumps of graceful palms fenced in a sandy arena where the zebra had fallen.
As there was lions' spoor by the water, we strolled out after tea and dropped a brace of zebra by the edge of the bush.
On our return I shot a zebra for bait in the strip of bush.
As the moon was now full, I determined to sit up, and having killed a zebra close to two small palms, I built a screen of palm-leaves and awaited events.
There was now little left of the zebra but a few bones, and the whole Lion family walked quietly away, the Lioness leading, and the Lion often turning his head to see that they were not followed, bringing up the rear.
The captains of the kilolos, governors of districts, hereditary or named for four years, wore hats of zebra skin and red vests for their whole uniform.
This is Salticus scenicus, sometimes called the Zebra Spider.
Even the comparatively sober-coloured "zebra spider" performs a weird pas seul in courting its mate, but its display is feeble compared with that of some of the more ornate of the Attidae.
We had pretty well finished up that zebra before we walked off, and the vultures came hopping round to clean up what we had left.
They weren't far off, and they came as fast as they could; and to see those little beggars dancing about that zebra was a sight, almost as good a feeling it gave me as when I landed on that zebra's back.
Now, good tender zebra makes a dish fit for a king, but the brute can trot at such a rate that I knew I shouldn't have a chance to catch him running.
The English settlers in Van Diemen's Land give the thylacynus the name of Zebra Wolf, because it has, in effect, the greater portion of the dorsal region and the base of the tail marked with transversal brown lines, like zebra stripes.
A mare of Lord Morton, covered by a zebra, produced at first a zebra mule; covered subsequently by an Arab horse she produced successively three zebrafoals like the first mule.
The most docile zebra on record was one that was burned, accidentally, in England, several years ago, with several other animals belonging to a lyceum.
Buffalo and zebra tracks were now frequent, and we were buoyed up with the hope that before long we should meet game.
With the improvidence usual with the gluttons, they had eaten their rations of grain, all their store of zebra and dried buffalo meat, and were now crying out that they were famished.
If I killed a zebra, did not his friend Oswell--the South African hunter--and himself long ago come to the conclusion that zebra meat was the finest in Africa?
I thought a spring-bok andzebra enough for one day's sport, especially after a long march.
I want to lead the Great Master to two lions," he said; "they have just killed a zebra and are now devouring it.
On making enquiry, I learned from my servants that a herd of wild zebra had galloped close by, and that this had so excited him that he managed to tear the picketing peg out of the ground and so rejoin his brethren in freedom.
On leaving my tent one morning when work was at a standstill owing to the rain, I noticed a great herd of zebra about a couple of miles away on the north side of the railway.
By the time the zebra was skinned, darkness was fast approaching, so we selected a suitable tree in which to pass the night.
We saw nothing more of the lion, though a few steps further on brought us to the remains of a zebra which he had recently killed and feasted on; but after this Mabruki kept carefully in the rear.
It was a perfect afternoon, and no sooner had I cleared the belt of scrub which grew round the kraal, when by the aid of my glasses I saw a herd of zebra and other game away in the distance, feeding peacefully on the rolling prairie.
In these solitudes the Zebra has nothing to restrain his liberty.
This Zebra is less beautifully marked than the mountain species.
Were the Zebra inured to our climate, there is little doubt but he might be soon domesticated.
The Zebra feeds in the same manner as the horse, ass, and mule; and seems to delight in having clean straw and dried leaves to sleep upon.
His head was high but his eyes roved from right to left restlessly, never still save when they paused for a flickering instant to examine some gazelle, some distant herd of zebra or wildebeeste standing in the vista of the flat-topped trees.
The little headman returned later to report the extraordinary luck of two zebra to two cartridges (at thirty yards to be sure!
The beast bulked huge and black--a wild lion is a third larger than his menagerie relative--looking as big as a zebra against the moonlight.
The dust was deep here, and arose in a cloud as a little band of zebra scrambled away.
On the other hand, when the pollen of a distinct plant of the Oncidium flexuosum and of the Epidendrum zebra (nov.
This is very much like the zebrain size, shape, and in fact everything except colour.
Of thezebra there are two distinct kinds--both of them natives of Africa, and belonging to the southern half of that great continent.
This is also one of the "Zebra Woodpeckers" to be found in Arizona and the Mexican borders of the United States.
It is an attractive bird, frequently called the "Zebra Woodpecker," on account of the black and white markings on the back, wings and tail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zebra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
