Plains zebra: Built to Survive

Question 1 · multiple choice

A camera trap is being set for a Plains zebra. Which habitat description gives it the best chance of success?

tropical mudflats, mangroves, and tidal creeks flower-rich habitats, farms, gardens, and managed hives grasslands and lightly wooded savannas open Southern Ocean and remote breeding islands

Question 2 · multiple choice

A Plains zebra follows its usual feeding pattern. Which food combination should it seek?

snakes, lizards, rodents, insects, and young birds tiny crustaceans, insect larvae, worms, and snails snails, crabs, clams, and other hard-shelled prey mainly tough grasses, with some leaves and stems

Question 3 · multiple choice

When should a documentary crew expect the most natural activity from a Plains zebra?

grazes for many hours and may travel to water daily often hunts at night and shelters by day active by day in suitable warmth feeds repeatedly through daylight and may enter torpor at night

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which set of movements belongs to a Plains zebra?

crawls with arms, jets water through a siphon, and swims briefly runs on a single hoof per foot with efficient elastic tendons flies with slow powerful wingbeats and migrates across generations hovers and can fly backward by rotating its wings

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which body feature gives a Plains zebra a practical survival advantage?

separate chemicals mix in a reinforced chamber only when defence is triggered shock-absorbing skull structures and a long barbed tongue support drilling and feeding striped coats may confuse biting flies and help individuals recognise one another raises the front body and spreads a narrow hood to warn threats

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which family-life detail is accurate for a Plains zebra?

one chalky egg is laid on a mud-mound nest females bury eggs in nests and can sometimes reproduce without a male gives birth to live young developing from eggs retained inside the mother a foal can stand and follow its mother soon after birth

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social clue belongs to a Plains zebra?

stable family units often travel within larger temporary herds mostly solitary but gathers where shelter and food are concentrated often forms blooms when currents and food concentrate individuals mostly solitary, using visual dances during courtship

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which food-web connection correctly involves a Plains zebra?

controls rodents, insects, and some venomous snakes keeps grasslands open and leaves shorter growth for other grazers predates small cave invertebrates in nutrient-poor groundwater controls hard-shelled reef invertebrates

Question 9 · multiple choice

A Plains zebra cannot simply disappear. Which combination helps it avoid or survive danger?

dives into a burrow or water and raises fins in threat displays workers sting and release alarm pheromone to recruit defenders bites and kicks while the herd bunches vulnerable young together relies on flight and distance from land predators

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A plains zebra each individual has a stripe pattern different from every other zebra.

True False