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Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) (48984753968)🐎

Photo: Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesPerissodactylaEquidae
Mammals

🐎Grevy's zebra

Equus grevyi Oustalet, 1882

La cebra de Grévy o cebra real (Equus grevyi) es una especie de mamífero perisodáctilo de la familia Equidae. Es la cebra más grande, con muchas y estrechas rayas verticales y grandes orejas redondas. Esta especie de cebra es la más domesticable. Aunque es más grande y fuerte que la cebra común, es más fácil de entrenar. Un rasgo especial de conducta de la cebra de Grevy es que en la estación de cría, los sementales no tienen harenes. En cambio, cada semental se vuelve extremadamente territorial y defiende un pequeño pedazo de terreno, intentando copular con cualquier hembra que cruce a través de su territorio.

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Also called
Grevy’s zebra, Grevy’s Zebra
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
384 kg
Body length
2.85 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
31 years
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Everything we know about the Grevy's zebra

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
384 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 384 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
2.85 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
31 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 31 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
6 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
3.7 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
1.1 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.1 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
2.27 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
384 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Grevy's zebra yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🐎 African wild ass — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.2 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Grevyzebra (de), Equus grevyi (es), zèbre de Grévy (fr), Equus grevyi (it), Zebra pręgowana (pl), זברת גרבי (he) … and 27 more languages
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