{"id":842,"date":"2010-09-14T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_travel_adventures\/?p=842"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:55:04","slug":"zebras-at-animal-kingdom-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/zebras-at-animal-kingdom-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebras at Animal Kingdom Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know there are two types of zebras at Animal Kingdom lodge?\u00a0\u00a0 I suppose you could say three if you want to count the wildly popular Zebra Domes available at Boma and Mara, but I meant the four legged kind.<\/p>\n

The more common of the two is the Grant\u2019s Zebras, sometimes called Plains Zebras, and these are the ones you will most often find at zoos around the United States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grant\u2019s zebras have wide, black stripes on white, including all the way down to their hooves and across their bellies.\u00a0 (Although some insist it is white stripes on black, I guess I will leave that up to you to decide).\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Grant\u2019s zebras are found in the wild mostly on the grasslands of eastern and southern Africa.\u00a0\u00a0 Grant\u2019s zebras typically live in a family group of either one stallion with his 5 or 6 mares, or a younger mixed herd up to 17 animals.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0For a variety of reasons at Animal Kingdom Lodge there is a lot of planning that goes into who lives on each savanna based on temperament, whether or not the animal will be bred, as well as health issues.\u00a0\u00a0 This applies to all the residents on the savannas, not just the zebras, and like humans, each resident is an individual, and those needs also need to be taken into consideration.\u00a0\u00a0 Grant\u2019s Zebras are in a managed breeding program so they do not take up all the zoo space.<\/p>\n

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Grants Zebras at Animal Kingdom Lodge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grant’s Zebras at Animal Kingdom Lodge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second species found at Animal Kingdom Lodge is the Hartmann\u2019s Mountain Zebra.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The first one born at Walt Disney World was on March 8, 2008 and he was named Kidani (yes like the Disney Vacation Club Villas property at Animal Kingdom Lodge).<\/p>\n

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Kidani September 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Disney works in conjunction with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Populations Management Program and other institutions to form\u00a0population programs to better manage\u00a0species in captivity; in fact one of Disney\u2019s animal keepers is in the charge of the breeding program for the Hartmann\u2019s Zebras nationwide.\u00a0\u00a0 Hartmann\u2019s Mountain Zebra\u2019s black or dark brown stripes are much thinner than the white ones, some of the coloring on their muzzles is more a dark brown, and there are no stripes on their bellies.\u00a0 \u00a0As the name might give away they are found in hot, dry, mountainous or at least hilly areas of Namibia and S. Africa out in the wild.\u00a0 The Hartmann’a Zebras form smaller family groups than the Grant\u2019s Zebras and do not gather into herds like many of the plains zebras.<\/p>\n

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Kidani Nursing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The zebra\u2019s overall do like to dominate, but are not mean, and will run and play with smaller animals.\u00a0\u00a0 The Grant\u2019s zebras tend to be more social towards other animals,\u00a0 while the Hartmann\u2019s tend to stay more to themselves, although have quite a playful nature.<\/p>\n

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Hartsmann’s Zebras getting frisky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hartsmann’s Zebras playing around<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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    Did you know there are two types of zebras at Animal Kingdom lodge?\u00a0\u00a0 I suppose you could say three if you want to count the wildly popular Zebra Domes available at Boma and Mara, but I meant the four legged kind. The more common of the two is the Grant\u2019s Zebras, sometimes called Plains Zebras,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walt-disney-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86550,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/86550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}