how can you tell th differance from a zebra to to a giraffe?
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Well, they both smell funny. the difference is that a zebra seems to get eaten by lions more often.\n\n\nhttp://groups.myspace.com/closetednerd
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How about a giraffe?  You are talented.
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Here is a zebra and a horse:\nhttp://www.lovelongears.com/zorse.html
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Zebras have black stripes superimposed over white base coats.  Proof:  Zebras and horses can breed to produce offspring known as zebroids, zorses, or zebra mules.   These hybrids possess black (or dark) zebra stripes superimposed over a normal horse base coat, such as brown, bay, or palomino.  If zebra stripes were white, the zebra/horse hybrids would be expected to have white (or pale) stripes.  Additional proof:  quaggas are an “extinct” subspecies of plains zebra.  Their striping was restricted to their necks and heads (occasionally their backs, as well) and their base coats consisted of dark brown bodies, and white legs and tails.  This gave them the appearance (in darker individuals) of being largely brown with white stripes on the head and neck.  However, in an effort to rebreed the quagga, researchers take an approach which appears (to those who believe zebras are white on black) to be quite the opposite.  They are breeding zebras that are mostly white with striping limited to their necks and heads.  After a population of these “stripe-less” zebras has been established, the breeders will repeat the process, this time focusing on darkening the zebras’ bodies to the dark brown that characterizes a quagga.  It also seems that the less black stripes a zebra possesses, the darker the base coat becomes.  The striping effects observed and utilized by breeders hoping to achieve a quagga would not even exist if zebras were white on black.   (For more information regarding the Quagga Project, visit http://www.quaggaproject.org/ \n\nIn response to other answers:  A common misconception about a zebra’s true color is that it must have a black base coat because its skin is black.  Even professionals such as zookeepers readily accept this as sound reasoning.  However, only very rarely is skin color the same as the animal’s hair color.  Though pigment-less areas on most animals’ bodies will be characterized by both pink skin and white hair, this does not always hold true.  For instance, polar bears have black skin but transparent hair, and orange-furred cats have pink skin.  Within the realm of equines (the group to which zebras belong) chestnut horses have black skin though their hair produces no black pigment (only red), and champagne horses have pink skin despite having colored coats.  If zebras had pink skin to go along with their white base coat, they would be easily sunburned by the harsh African sun.  To compensate, zebras have black skin despite having a white base coat.\n\nWhy do zebras have stripes?\n\nThere are several theories. Here are a few of them:\n\nZebras have stripes to avoid predation. When a herd of zebras are running by, it is very difficult to pick out just one. All it looks like is a big, black and white, kaleidoscopic mess, not a herd of tasty equine individuals.\n\nZebras have stripes to encourage positive social interaction. It seems the stripes somehow trigger benevolent behavior among other zebras. Around the head and shoulders of most zebras, the stripes are most dense. These are areas where positive social behavior would take place, such as greeting or grooming. Around the rears of most zebras the stripes are broad and widespread. The rump is typically the site of aggressive behavior among zebras, such as nipping or kicking. \n\nZebras have stripes to avoid sunburn. It appears the stripes somehow combat UV rays.\n\nZebras have stripes to confuse parasites. Most parasites that rely on sight to find a host look for large, dark, moving bodies. By breaking up their shapes with bold stripes, zebras confuse parasites into misidentifying them as something other than a prospective host.\n\nOf course, all these things could be true. Quaggas are an extinct subspecies of plains zebra that lacked all striping on its body, retaining it only on its head and neck. Because the quagga was out of the range of the tsetse fly (a main zebra parasite), it is possible the body stripes receded because they simply
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It depends on the species of zebra..."the common (or plains) zebra has 26 stripes per side, the mountain zebra has 43 stripes per side, and the Grevy's zebra has 80 stripes per side."\n\nOf course, since stripes on a zebra are like fingerprints on humans, your mileage may vary.
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2 different colors. Then simply place a legend saying which is which and voila!
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almost exectly half  a metre, some times a litle bit less .sometimes a little bit more.depending on the age and the region\nthe elephant is fatter and longer(one metre) even though the girafe is taller\nso this goes to prove that the lenth of the neck does not determine the length of the penis.
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you got zebrinny(offspring of male horse and female zebra),zebrule(hybrid offspring of male zebra and female horse)zebu(ox with hump and dewlap)zemni(blind mole rat)zho(cross between yak and a cow),zizel(chipmunk)zonure(small south african lizard)zosterops(a small tropical bird)zumbador(south african humming bird).it was real learning for me too...answering this question..after listing all this i began thinking if getting all this was a kind of zoosophy or zoomania!!
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An animal with black & white stripes.\n\nPS:Did you just see the movie MADAGASCAR?
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We thought we'd read somewhere that giraffes did not have voice boxes and weren't capable of producing any vocalizations, but we decided to search the Net and see if this was true. We typed "giraffes make noise" into the Yahoo! search box and looked to see what we could rustle up. \nAlthough we did find a page or two that claimed the animal makes no noise at all, we found many more zookeepers, veterinarians, and other animal experts who debunked this popular misconception. On a page from Discovery Magazine.com, a kids' magazine devoted to science, a young reader echoed your question. The resident expert consulted with a zoo vet and learned that although giraffes are generally quiet animals, they can make a bleating sound, similar to that of a young calf or sheep. \n\nA page from the Indianapolis Zoo confirmed this fact, and stated that giraffes can also make a "low, fluttering sound." Yet another zoo source says that while giraffes don't often make noise, "they are capable of frighteningly loud grunts and roars if they feel threatened." \n\nApparently, the belief that giraffes make no noise is simply a tall tale -- the animals can make a number of sounds. \n\nIf you are looking for some fascinating, and true, giraffe facts, here are a few: \n\nGiraffes are the tallest land animal and can grow up to 18 feet tall. \nThe giraffe's neck can be 6 feet long, and its tongue can stretch 20 inches. \nGiraffes give birth standing up, so the baby giraffe enters the world with a drop to the ground. \nEach animal's coat has a unique pattern, much like human fingerprints. \nAnd we're not stretching the truth!
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wow, those are some immature answers. Zebras have stripes for defense tactics. When they huddle together or move together, it is hard for a predator to single out one.
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If you cannot tell by looking at him (mixed breeds specifically), take him to a vet. I believe they can either do a blood test or something, but they can usually help you figure it out. Now, sometimes, especially if they are only somewhat mixed breeds or pure breds, you can tell by looking at them, or at least guess.
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Zebras are not the same species as a horse (Equus callabus).  They are, however, in the same family and even in the same genus.. Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi), Plains zebra (Equus quagga) and so forth.  They can be broken.
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There are three obvious differences:\n1.Apes are larger than monkeys\n2.Monkey's have tails, apes don't\n3.Apes are smarter than monkeys
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in the case of giraffes and okapi, they have very long, nearly prehensile tongues used to strip leaves and branches from trees.  the dark colour is due to higher levels of melanin in the tongues.  granules of melanin in the integument of the tongue help to strengthen and protect the tongue from mechanical injury to some degree, but their primary 'purpose' is to protect the tongue from sunburn.\n\nas you can imagine, a giraffe's tongue gets quite a bit of exposure to harsh African sunshine.  now imagine getting a sunburn on your tongue.  ouch.\n\nin the case of chows, the colour may have been bred into the dogs for some reason (i.e. aesthetics) by the breeders, or more likely, the genes for that colour were linked to another trait that the breeders desired.\n\ni'm not aware of bears having black tongues.  which species is that?
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There is no difference between them, they are diffrent names for the same animal.\n_____\n\n>>>>>>First, is there such thing as a panther,\n>>>>> separate and distinct from a black leopard?\n\nNo. \n\nLet's set the wayback machine for 500BC, the early Roman Empire. At that time lions and leopards was still quite widespread in Egypt and Libya and was not uncommonly seen in Rome as a guard animal or exotic pet.\n\nBut travellers in those days also told stories of exotic and remarkable beasts like chimaeras, unicorns and rocs. And one of the exotic animals they told stories about was a large spotted cat called a pardus or pantherus. And just like the Rocs and unicorns the parda/panthera never existed. It was entirely made up. It had all sorts of remarkable traits. It could turn invisible. An adult pardus was at least as big as a lion but could shrink down to mimic a housecat so it get into houses and eat people in their sleep. A pardus could breath out a sweet fragrance that would cause its prey to become helpless and could even cause a human who breathed it to spend his life luting other humans off the road to be devoured by the pard.\n\nAnother common property of the Parda/Panthera is that they were all either male or female, and they could only reproduce by breeding with other animals. They mostly reproduced with lions (leo in Latin), giving rise to the hybrid animal know as leo pardus. A name the Romans later contracted to leopard. Early Romans seem to have genuinely believed that the leopard was not a species in its own right but a hybrid of a lion and the mythical panthera/parda.\n\nWhich is why we have all this confusion with the names. Panther applied to a fictitious big cat of unknown character, and a leopard was the offspring of a panther. Over time the names became every more confused and acquired subtly different meaning in the various European languages. \n\nBut in modern English the panther is just a leopard with black hair. They most commonly arise as individuals in a litter of otherwise perfectly normal leopards. Two spotted leopards will just produce black panthers occasionally. And two black panthers that breed will produce mostly spotted young. \n\nThe black hair is just a genetic quirk, it is exactly like red hair in humans. Just as two brown haired people can throw a red haired child, so two spotted leopards can throw black panther. \n\n>>>>Also, why would a melanistic version of a jaguar not be called a black jaguar instead of a black leopard?\n\nBecause South American countries speak Spanish or Portugese, not English. The word 'leopard' has a subtly different meaning in those languages. It is closer to the original Latin meaning of 'exotic big cat'. A black jaguar is rare enough to qualify as a leopard.\n\n>>>>>.... leopards are in Africa\n\nLeopards are the most widespread big cat on the planet. They are found in Africa, but they are also found through the middle east, into the Indian subcontinent and China and through South East Asia all the way to Java. They used to be common.\n\n>>> Makes no sense...\n\nIt makes no sense biologically. It makes perfect sense etymologically. \n\nJust like it makes perfect sense that Americans call a crocodilian alligator (literally meaning 'a lizard') when they have no close biological affinity to lizards. That could really confuse a Spanish speaker. But if you trace the etymology of the word it makes perfect sense.\n\nWords change there meaning over time, and when they hop between languages they often change meaning in very confusing ways.
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No, though they look quite similar in many ways, they are two different species that do not have similar DNA.\nCrocodiles are in the family Crocodylidae, whereas Aligators are in the family Alligatoridae (I'm not making this up! Check the link!). Some animals that have cross-bred before (like donkey with horse, tiger with lion, zebra with donkey) have to be closer related.