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It’s A Zebra!

Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 8th, 2009

This is an update to the reports of a striped cryptid being sighted and first seen around Little Hocking, Ohio.

It is definitely a zebra. The apparently as-yet-uncaught animal wandering around Ohio has been photographed in Athens County.

People in Athens County were getting tired of folks saying they were crazy when they said they saw a zebra. They decided to take some pictures.

“The zebra ran past me and I decided to go home and get my camera because I figured nobody would believe me,” Zach Hall said.

“You look up on the hill and there was that zebra, so we came home and got our camera and went back down the road, and they were trying to lasso it and they tried to get it with a bucket of food, but it just got spooked and took off,” Connie Johnson said.

The animal was last seen in Torch, Ohio.

No definite word yet if this zebra has been caught. Reports that it was captured on March 1st or that a private owner has come forth still are just rumors.

These photographs are so clear, I think the variety of this zebra can be positively identified. This animal appears to be a Grant’s Zebra (Equus burchelli bohmi or Burchelli bohmi). The Grant’s species or subspecies (depending on what school you agree with) is the most abundant of the four species or subspecies of zebra. This would be the most logical variety to have been kept in private captivity.

Thanks to Cathleen Moxley.

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kittenz responds: March 8th, 2009 at 7:56 am
I’m not surprised. There are a lot of people in Ohio who keep captive exotic wildliife. Ohio is a haven for backyard menageries and roadside zoos because the laws there are so lax.

Let’s hope this zebra is recaptured before it meets someone’s escaped lion .
coelacanth1938 responds: March 8th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Well, at least people are finally taking clearer photographs of supposed cryptids.
shumway10973 responds: March 8th, 2009 at 10:28 am
That animal is definitely someone’s pet. Though people couldn’t catch it, I think we can safely say that it is use to being around people who aren’t playing cowboy. Now we just need a domestic Bigfoot to pose for someone.
Jokers_Wild responds: March 8th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
There was a zebra on the loose in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma back in 2007. It turned out to be someone’s pet, which is probably what will happen regarding this incident. You can find the zebra story by going here, and putting “zebra” in the search function.

Oh, and hey, everybody, first post here.
Spinach Village responds: March 8th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Funny …. is it bad to let this animal just roam? I doesn’t seem to pose a threat to anybody.
scosmo451 responds: March 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Obvious Photoshop. Can’t believe what these hoaxers will try
CryptidHuntr responds: March 8th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
i think its Photoshop 2.
mystery_man responds: March 8th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Well, those photos are certainly not of the fuzzy, blobsquatch variety. It looks to me as if the zebra pretty much let the photographer come right up to it. Now if only some other cryptids would be so camera friendly.
HOOSIERHUNTER responds: March 8th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Nope, you’re all wrong it’s obviously a striped otter- rare maybe but perfectly explainable.
jasephotos responds: March 8th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
It’s also possible that this zebra escaped from The Wilds. They have a small herd of Grevy’s Zebra and are not terribly far from Athens.
Loren Coleman responds: March 8th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
This is very clearly not a Grévy’s zebra (Equus grevyi).

Grévy’s zebras are endangered, and one of their distinctive field markers are the lack of striping going all the way down to and under their bellies.
wisaaka responds: March 9th, 2009 at 4:51 am
I’m hoping the people of this area leave this zebra alone, for it to be free and happy, and that some day they completely (re)stock the zebra population. Viva le Zebra.
Alligator responds: March 9th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
“I’m hoping the people of this area leave this zebra alone, for it to be free and happy, and that some day they completely (re)stock the zebra population. Viva le Zebra.”

Why would you want a colony of wild Zebras in Ohio? Its an exotic, an invasive species. Heaven knows there are enough ecological problems with exotics establishing themselves in non-native environments. Besides you cannot “re-stock” something that was never there originally. Would we want to re-stock bison on the plains of the Serengeti? If you are being tongue in cheek, just ignore my post
cryptidsrus responds: March 9th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Hopefully, the animal can be “restocked” where there are other zebras.
kittenz responds: March 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
For both the zebra’s safety and the safety of the public, the sooner it is recaptured, the better.

It looks sleek and healthy now, but how will it be after a couple of months trying to fend for itself? Granted, one zebra is not likely to do too much environmental damage, but it could get tangle in barbed wire, or chased by feral dogs. Or worse, the zebra could stray into traffic and be struck and injured or killed.

jasephotos,

I’m glad that you mentioned The Wilds. It’s an awesome project.
coelacanth1938 responds: March 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
“Funny …. is it bad to let this animal just roam? I doesn’t seem to pose a threat to anybody.”

It depends if the zebra knows enough to avoid cars and trucks.
browwiw responds: March 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Aren’t zebras supposed to be terribly ornery and kind of vicious? I read once that the zebra’s mean-spirited attitude is why the peoples of Africa never really tried to domesticate them and that more zookeepers die of zebra attacks each year than all caged large cat attacks combined. But, then, I put a lot of questionable knowledge in my head.
wisaaka responds: March 10th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Alligator and others: I’m being fun and/or funny. Obviously I’m not actually advocating the “stocking” of zebras in rural Ohio. Why or how could anyone believe that I’m not being “tongue in cheek”?

Still though, Viva le Zebra.
TheBibliophile responds: March 10th, 2009 at 3:17 am
As usual, it’s up to me to point out that this is CLEARLY nothing more than a fox with mange. It just appears to be a zebra due to the shadows and foreshortening effect of the camera.

What a strikingly beautiful animal, it would be a real treat to see one in the flesh outside a zoo. The surreal factor of seeing it in rural Ohio mush have been delightful for the first few witnesses, but what a tough sell to try and convince anyone without photos this clear. “No, it WASN’T a spotted horse, it was a blankety-blank ZEBRA!”

Browiw - I too have heard that the zebra is almost impossible to domesticate, which would probably explain why none have ever shown up as a beast of burden or riding animal in historical accounts.
kittenz responds: March 10th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Historical anecdotes have it that zebras, especially Plains zebras such as the one in these photos, are ornery and hard to tame. Grevy’s zebras, on the other hand, are said to be easily tamed and have even been used to pull carriages.

But here is a link to a page at messybeast that shows zebras under harness.

Some of the photos are of Plains zebras, some of Grevy’s. Grevy’s zebras are much more horselike than other zebras. Zebras have also been crossed with horses and sometimes with donkeys, in an attempt to create a mule-like animal that is immune to trypanosomiasis (a disease spread by tsetse flies); the attempts have met with varying success and the hybrid has never been much more than a novelty.
pumpkinlettuce responds: March 15th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
We Ohioans love our zebras :]

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