Volume 1

A natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, reptiles, and insects / by Mrs. Mary Trimmer.

Date:
1826
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, reptiles, and insects / by Mrs. Mary Trimmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1C THE ZEBRA. The Zebra is at once one of the most elegant and the most untameable of animals. Its skin is as smooth as satin, and adorned with elegant stripes, like ribbons, which are brown on a yellowish white ground in the male, and in the female are black on a while ground. The body is round and plump, and the legs of a delicate smallness. Thevoice ofthis creature is thought to have a distant resemblance to the sound of a post horn. The Zebra is chielly found in the southern parts of Africa; whole herds are often seen grazing in those extensive plains that lie near the Cape of Good Hope, and a pe- nalty of fifty rix dollars is indicted on any person who shoots one of them. Such of them as are caught alive are presented to the governor. Several have been brought to England, but, except in one instance, they have all displayed great wildness, and even ferocity. The exception was in that which was burnt some years ago at Exeter Change. It would allow young children to he put upon its back, and was once ridden from the Lyceum to Pimlico; hut it was bred and reared in Portugal, from parents half reclaimed. In several other cases. Zebras have attempted to injure specta- tors, and have not even spared their keepers.
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