Scientific name: Equus burchelli

Location: Zimbabwe to the Sudan

Size: up to 1.6m high, weigh up to 450 kg

Life Span: up to 28 years

Current Status: not endangered

Habitat: grasslands

Fast facts:

• --eats grasses

• --use hooves and teeth in defense

• --all strip patterns are different

• --the strips confuse insects

• --a large herd suddenly moving in all directions confuses attackers