{"id":5372,"date":"2019-09-18T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"excitement-as-rare-blacker-zebra-spotted-in-maasai-mara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/18\/excitement-as-rare-blacker-zebra-spotted-in-maasai-mara\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement As Rare &#8216;Blacker&#8217; Zebra Spotted in Maasai Mara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong><em>By George Sayagie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A photographer at a camp in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve was in for a surprise when he came across an incredibly rare, &#8220;blacker&#8221; newly born Zebra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Antony Tira &#8211; A renowned tour guide-cum photographer &#8211; at Matira bush camp, spotted and photographed the black dotted foul and posted it on the camp&#8217;s Facebook page attracting a lot of social media attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At first I thought it was a zebra that had been captured and painted or marked for purposes of migration. I was confused when I first saw it,&#8221; Mr. Tira told the Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said on closer examination, he realized that what he was seeing was actually a zebra with melanin disorder. It was hardly a week old, it appeared weak and very different from the others for it has not striped and was stuck close to a female adult zebra, probably its mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201909160473.html\">Continue\nreading\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Sayagie A photographer at a camp in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve was in for a surprise when he came across an incredibly rare, &#8220;blacker&#8221; newly born Zebra.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}