AnimalsSavanna
Zebra Fun facts for kids
Equus quagga
The zebra lives on grassy plains in Africa and eats grass, sometimes leaves and bark.
- Where it lives
- on grassy plains in Africa
- What it eats
- grass, sometimes leaves and bark
- How big it is
- about as long as a small car
Fun facts about the zebra
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
A zebra is really black with white stripes, because its skin under the fur is dark.
No two zebras have the same stripes, and a baby zebra knows its mum by her stripes, voice and smell.
Stripes seem to confuse biting flies, so they have trouble landing on a zebra.
A baby zebra can run with its herd about an hour after it is born.
A zebra doesn't neigh like a horse, its call sounds more like a yapping dog or a braying donkey.
A zebra's eyes are on the sides of its head, so it can see almost all the way around itself.
Zebra friends nibble each other's necks and shoulders, which calms them and makes their friendship stronger.
Some zebras in Botswana make the longest known journey of any land animal herd in Africa, there and back.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I live in a big family that walks a long way to find fresh grass.
When my family rests, one of us always stays awake to keep watch.
Biting flies find it hard to land on me.
I look a lot like a horse, but nobody has ever really tamed me.
I'm black and white, and no two of us have the same pattern.
Sammy might be thinking of a zebra.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the zebra in the Savanna adventure.
Play the SavannaComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
