A Grevy’s zebra has large ears and a long, narrow head. It lives in dry parts of Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
Large ears and a prominent upright mane are distinctive features.
Male Grevy’s zebras sniff dung or urine and then add their own dung or urine on or beside it. A male may sniff a dung pile, defecate there, and sniff again.
A study published in 2000 compared wild Grevy’s zebras in Kenya’s Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves. Observations covered fifteen days in each of August 1998, the dry season, and May 1999, the rainy season. Researchers identified individuals by stripe patterns and followed their daytime behaviour.
In the Samburu study area, territorial males most commonly scent-marked by adding dung to their own dung or to dung piles within their territories, in both seasons. In the Buffalo Springs study area, rainy-season sightings included mixed-sex groups of a few to about twenty animals, bachelor groups and solitary males. Dry-season mixed-sex groups exceeded one hundred animals. The same species showed different patterns of association between places and seasons.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The Kenya Wildlife Service’s 2017–2026 recovery and action plan identifies rangeland degradation and restricted access to water as conservation concerns. It calls for local land-use planning, management of livestock grazing, rehabilitation of degraded land, and securing grazing and water resources. The plan involves communities, landowners and public authorities in sustaining rangelands for both Grevy’s zebras and livestock.