As a professed lover of zebras, you’d think I’d have been in veritable heaven what with all the zebras running around. Now that about 15% of my photos are of zebras and their striped patooties, I’m kind of “eh”. There were literally everywhere.
At the beginning of the trip, the group would get incredibly excited at every animal sighting, and were very confused by our guides rushing us along when clearly there were super cool animals RIGHT THERE. About an hour into our Ngorongoro Crater visit, we finally understood. Say you have a box of Lucky Charms. You LOVE Lucky Charms, especially the shooting star marshmallows. Now imagine half the box is made up of shooting star marshmallows. After the first bowl or so, they really aren’t that appetizing.
The zebras are the shooting star marshmallows in that Lucky Charms box. And the whole grain cereal pieces are the hyenas.
It took about two “bowls” of zebras for us realize a couple things: a) they are way more common than us zoo-raised folks were led to believe, b) they are basically fancy donkeys with weak backbones. Nice to look at, but no use to folks other than as decoration and lawn mowing. That being said, I still adore their stripey little booties, so have another picture!
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