The Natural History of South Africa Mammals volume 3
The Natural History of South Africa Mammals volume 3
F W Frederick William Fitzsimons
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The latter had been leading a soli- tary existence, and for several days he had been endeavouring to gain the affections of some donkey mares on the hillside. The donkey stallion resented this, and attacked him, but was so badly bitten that he had to be shot to put him out of his misery. On this same farm a solitary old Zebra stallion used to pay nightly visits to the crops, leaping over the barbed-wire fences and stone walls with ease. One moonlight night he was surprised in a field of corn, 1... 86 The Mountain Zebra. The small antelope is a Klipspringer. The Giraffe. [Seepage 150] Frotnpaitin S sb v Caftain W. Cornwall!* Harris, 1840. THE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA and in his hurry to escape dashed into a wire fence, turned a somersault over it and broke his neck. Old stallions when captured often refuse to eat, and die of exhaustion, or what is commonly known as a " broken heart. " How could it be otherwise with an animal which all its life had been as free as the birds of the air up in the mountain fastnesses, and leader of a troop, to be suddenly captured, tethered and confined in a stable ?
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