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Like most members of the horse family, zebras are a very social animal. Their social structure depends on species. Mountain zebras and plains zebras live in groups known as harems, consisting of one stallion with up to six mares and their foals. Bachelor males either live alone or groups of bachelors until they are old enough and strong enough to challenge a stallion. When attacked, they will huddle together with the foals in the middle while the stallion tries to fight the predator off.

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  • Female zebras mature earlier than the males, and a mare may have her first foal by the age of three. Males are not able to breed until the age of five or six. Mares give birth to one foal every twelve months. She nurses the foal for up to a year. A zebra foal is born brown and white instead of the black and white of its mother.
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