Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Zebra..




Zebras are mammals animal, and they are members of the horse family. They live in social groups. Zebras are threatened by many predators such as lions, leopards, hyenas, and wild dogs as well as crocodiles when they cross the rivers. Despite the fact that the nature of zebras are to escape from the predators, they sometimes try to defend for themselves by kicking or biting. The kick can be powerful and can cause serious injury to a predator. Zebras communicate with one another by facial expressions and sounds. They make loud braying or barking sounds and soft snorting sounds.A Zebra is drinking water at the river, it hears another zebra nearby make an alarm call. The zebra immediately runs away. The proximate cause of the zebra running away would be the alarm call. But the ultimate cause for the zebra to run is survival. It is running away because it wants to survive. The alarm call is not the source of danger, but the alarm call alerts the zebra that danger, may be nearby and the lion can threaten the zebra's chance to survive.

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