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==Appearance== [[File:Mountain zebra -uenozoo2010.ogv|thumb|left|A [[Hartmann's mountain zebra]] with a [[Barbary sheep]] behind it, in captivity at [[Ueno Zoo]], [[Japan]]]] [[File:Hartmanns Mountain Zebra Resting.jpg|thumb|left|Hartmann's mountain zebra resting, showing its characteristic essentially unbarred belly]] The mountain zebra has a [[dewlap]], which is more conspicuous in ''E. z. zebra'' than in ''E. z. hartmannae''. Like all extant zebras, mountain zebras are [[zebra stripes|boldly striped]] in black or dark brown, and no two individuals look exactly alike. The whole body is striped except for the belly. In the Cape mountain zebra, the ground colour is effectively white, but the ground colour in Hartmann's zebra is slightly buff.<ref name= "MetH">{{cite book |author1=Mills, Gus |author2=Hes, Lex |name-list-style=amp | title = The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals | publisher = Struik Publishers | location = Cape Town | year = 1997 | isbn = 0947430555 }}</ref> Adult mountain zebras have a head-and-body length of {{convert|2.1|to|2.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}} and a tail of {{convert|40|to|55|cm|in|abbr=on}} long. Wither height ranges from {{Convert|1.16|to|1.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}}. They weigh from {{Convert|204|to|372|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref>Shefferly, Nancy. [http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Equus_zebra.html ''Equus zebra'' mountain zebra]. Animal Diversity Web</ref><ref name="penzhorn">{{Cite web|url=http://www.science.smith.edu/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-314-01-0001.pdf|first=B.L.|last=Penzhorn|title=Equus Zebra|date=June 30, 1988|publisher=The American Society of Mammalogists|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101134639/http://www.science.smith.edu/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-314-01-0001.pdf|archive-date=2012-11-01}}</ref> Groves and Bell found that Cape mountain zebras exhibit [[sexual dimorphism]], females being larger than males, whereas Hartmann's mountain zebras do not.<ref name="GrB"/> Hartmann's zebra is on average slightly larger than the Cape mountain zebra.
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