Editing Mountain zebra (section)

==Ecology==
Mountain zebras live in hot, dry, rocky, mountainous and hilly habitats. They prefer slopes and plateaus as high as {{Convert|2000|m|abbr=on|ft}} above sea level, although they do migrate lower during winter. Their preferred diet is tufted grass, but in times of shortage, they  [[Browsing (herbivory)|browse]], eating bark, twigs, leaves, buds, fruit, and roots.

They drink every day. When no surface water is available due to drought, they commonly dig for ground water in dry river beds.

The Cape mountain zebra and Hartmann's mountain zebra are now [[allopatric]], meaning that their present ranges do not overlap, which prevents them from [[crossbreed]]ing. This was not always so, and the current situation is a result of their populations being fragmented when hunters exterminated them throughout the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Historically, mountain zebras could be found across the entire length of the [[escarpment]]s along the west coast of southern Africa and in the fold mountain region in the south. However, they generally inhabited poorly productive land and were nowhere really numerous in comparison to those species of zebras or antelope that inhabited the plains, for example.<ref name= "MetH"/>