Zebras with fowl.

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Zebra are one of Africa’s most distinctive families of animals with their equine build, and characteristically bold black and white stripes. Every individual has a unique striping pattern, similar to a human fingerprint. The stripes continue up into a stiff bristly mane which stands upright, making it appear as an extension of the neck. Some zebra stripes are a faint grey color or may be a brown ‘shadow’ stripe in the white region. Plains zebra can be distinguished from other species of zebras because the stripes on their flanks meet on their bellies, both mountain and Grevy’s zebra lack stripes on their bellies.