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Wild life

Aidan Hartley: A plague of ravenous zebras

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

Laikipia, Kenya

 
The zebra lacks a rumen and eats at least twice as much as a cow. On our modest Kenyan ranch we run several hundred head of Boran cattle. In our arid conditions, this number is carefully calculated on a stocking rate of so many beasts to the acre. If you add hundreds of zebra to the pasture you swiftly finish your grass.

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