{"id":1493,"date":"2010-11-07T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:40:44","slug":"travel-butlers-trivia-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/travel-butlers-trivia-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Butlers Trivia 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 things you may or may not know about zebra :<\/p>\n

\"zebra-picture\"1. The way to tell whether a zebra is male or female from behind (aside from the obvious, of course) is to look under their tail – females have a broader black ‘stripe’ between their back thighs than males.<\/p>\n

2. When males fight each other over a female, they have been known to bite off their opponents tail.<\/p>\n

3. Zebras can sometimes look fat – this is just gas and air as a result of bacteria that is in their stomach to help them break down their food via fermentation – which has the unfortunate side effect of also producing methane gas.<\/p>\n

4. A zebra’s neck is actually THE only place where the animal has any fat store, and the mane is a good indication of the health of the animal – an upright mane means a good layer of fat – so a healthy zebra.<\/p>\n

5. The zebra’s backwards kick is powerful enough to break a lion’s neck \/ back or jaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 things you may or may not know about zebra : 1. The way to tell whether a zebra is male or female from behind (aside from the obvious, of course) is to look under their tail – females have a broader black ‘stripe’ between their back thighs than males. 2. When males fight each […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[612],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-travel-butlers","tag-zebra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}