ZOIE (the zebra)
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Owner:
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Moosemeat
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Released:
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Friday, April 1, 2005
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Origin:
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United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In Alte Grammophon
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Enclosed find a picture of Zoie’s relatives,
somewhere in South Africa. Zoie would
like to meet up with them again. She doesn’t
mind taking the long way there. Hopefully,
we geo-cachers can help her along.
Why they are striped is still an unanswered question. Several theories have been put forward but non with absolute certainty. It could be that all the theories are to some extent correct. There are residual stripes on other species of horse such as the Przewalski and the Icelandic it seems possible, to me, that the stripes are the only remaining examples of much more common equine markings.
The stripes are important for identification. A mare will keep her foal from seeing other zebras, even family members, until it has imprinted her stripes to memory, it is one of the main ways by which she will be known to her offspring. Her smell and call being the other important factors. These same identifiers are how family members know each other, with Plains and Mountain zebras families being formed for life. It is the patterns formed by these stripes that modern scientists use to identify individual animals for study. No two zebras having the same markings.
Grazers, zebras are often the first such feeders to use an area, cropping down the longer harder grasses. This clears the ground for other browsers who cannot cope with the conditions until the softer food is uncovered. As they are not competing with each other for foodstuff zebras and other grazers will often form a larger herd together and will heed the warnings of some other types of animal. This also gives protection to all concerned, a hunting carnivore will look for an isolated weaker animal when ever possible.
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Tracking History (22236.9mi) View Map
Corrézien retrieved it from Puy-des-Roches
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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On va essayer de le rapprocher un peu de l'afrique du sud...
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mischika placed it in Puy-des-Roches
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
- 470.32 miles
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mischika retrieved it from Es Caló de sa Barca Rampuda
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Islas Baleares, Spain
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Nachdem ZOIE eine ganze Zeit in Germany verbracht hat, wird es Zeit das es Frankreich kennenlernt.
Having past a lot of time in Germany I will show him some nice places in France.
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eidexe placed it in Es Caló de sa Barca Rampuda
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Islas Baleares, Spain
- 1,111.96 miles
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eidexe retrieved it from Halber Baum
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Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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picked up in a forest next to Lübeck.
There was a Circus just a few minutes away and ZOIE could meet a friend 😌
Now she is going to Köln (Cologne). Maybe she will travel on by plane 😉
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Sanne&Kiki placed it in Halber Baum
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Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- 27.78 miles
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DieAndere discovered it
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I've seen it at the HCT-Klönschnack, but I took another travelbug with me.
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Sanne&Kiki retrieved it from HCT - Klönschnack März 2007
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Hamburg, Germany
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ZOIE will travel to Lübeck with us now! 🙂
Sanne & Kiki
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derandere posted a note for it
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caught another ride at the HCT event.
DerAndere
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derandere placed it in HCT - Klönschnack März 2007
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Hamburg, Germany
- 5.17 miles
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