Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."
Monday, December 1, 2008
Zebras
This is Lord Walter Rothschild (1868-1937) with the zebra carriage he drove around London. Zebras are not easily domesticated, but it has been done. They are tamer when they are bred with horses, but as this video points out, zorses are not accepted by the zebras. Zebras are apparently a mean bunch - I read an account of a woman who reached through the bars at a zoo to pet the zebra and it bit off her finger!
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