In this condition, there is an increased build-up of dark pigmented melanin in the skin. Turns out, that the unusual development of the strips in the foal is due to a condition called Melanism, reports Daily Mail. I was confused when I first saw it,” he said. “At first I thought it was a zebra that had been captured and painted or marked for purposes of migration. The spotted-zebra found in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya is named Tira.Īntony Tira, a tour guide and photographer at Matira Bush Camp, is the one who spotted the foal, reports Daily Mail. The rare polka-dotted zebra is the first recorded case in Maasai Mara National by Facebook page Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association on September 14, the image shows an animal covered in pattern of small stripes and spots across its skin. The newborn animal, however, is nothing like that image. For most, the word Zebra brings up the image of an animal covered in black and white stripes. While it is unknown what happened to the little zebra foal, we can only hope that it beat the odds and found a way to survive.A newborn Zebra in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, is making people go wow because of its unusual appearance. Photo: YouTube/HassaneinĪt the time that the foal was photographed, it was only a week old, meaning that it probably only had a few weeks left to live. It has been observed that blacker zebras born in the wild will normally only live about six weeks after their birth. Photo: YouTube/HassaneinĪ zebra’s digestion is supposedly less efficient than other animals, and so by having a good body cooling system, they’re able to digest their food and thus they’re able to remain healthy.īecause the blacker zebra foal doesn’t have any of these cooling stripes, it is a sad reality that many blacker zebras don’t live long in the wild. Additionally, zebra’s stripes help them to better digest their food. In fact, their stripes serve as a means of keeping them cool while they’re running across the African landscape. While that might not seem like a big deal, a zebra’s stripes are actually quite important to its well-being. Rather than having light-colored pigmentation, the zebra’s fur only had dark colors.
It had been born with a case of melanism, which is the opposite disorder of albinism. In fact, the rare little foal turned out to be what is known as a “blacker zebra.” Photo: YouTube/HassaneinĪs shared by Abdelrahman Hassanein, the blacker zebra foal – at the time of the photography – was no more than a week old. In fact, at first he didn’t even believe that he was looking at a baby zebra but rather some other species of animal that had ended up getting lost from its family. Tira was quite surprised by what he was witnessing, never thinking that such a zebra could exist. Tira was filming video and taking pictures of the wildlife at the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya, when he spotted the rare animal.
The little zebra was actually a foal, but it didn’t have stripes at all on its body.
SPOTTED ZEBRA FOLAL PROFESSIONAL
One professional photographer, Antony Tira, managed to capture a very rare sight: a none-striped zebra! However, sometimes nature throws in a curveball. We all know that zebras are black and white and striped.
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