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The English name "zebra" derives from Italian, Spanish or Portuguese. [3] [4] Its origins may lie in the Latin equiferus, meaning "wild horse". Equiferus appears to have entered into Portuguese as ezebro or zebro, which was originally used for a legendary equine in the wilds of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Zebroid is the term generally used for all zebra hybrids. The different hybrids are generally named using a portmanteau of the sire's name and the dam's name. Generally, no distinction is made as to which zebra species is used. Many times, when zebras are crossbred, they develop some form of dwarfism. Breeding of different branches of the ...
The baby zebra's name honors his mother, another zebra on the farm named Barbara Johnson. "He likes people more than he does other animals," Brooks said. BJ and his other petting zoo friends ...
In the Shona language, the name "madhuve" means "woman/women of the zebra totem" and is a given name for girls in Zimbabwe. [40] Zebras have also been represented in Western culture. They have been thought of as a more exotic alternative to horse; the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle is depicted riding a zebra.
Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), also known as the imperial zebra, is the largest living wild equid and the most threatened of the three species of zebra, the other two being the plains zebra and the mountain zebra. Named after French president Jules Grévy, it is found in parts of Kenya and Ethiopia.
Zebra (Equus quagga boehmi) 361 390 375 Factors affecting the gestation period in mammals. There are several factors affecting the length of the gestation period in ...
It has been historically suggested that the name quagga is derived from the Khoikhoi word for zebra (cf. Tshwa llkoaah 'zebra' [4]), thereby being an onomatopoeic word, resembling the quagga's call, variously transcribed as "kwa-ha-ha", [5] "kwahaah", [2] or "oug-ga". [6] The name is still used colloquially for the plains zebra. [5]