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  • Burchell's calculations work out to be 4.7 km/hour, based on traveling 15.25 miles in 5.25 hours, William J. Burchell, Selections from Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, ed.H. Clement Notcutt (London: Oxford University Press, 1935), 115.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • There are small herds of buffalo Syncerus caffer and blue wildebeeste Connochaetes taurinus, as well as giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis, Burchell's zebra Equus burchelli, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus, and some bushpig Potamocherus porcus.

    Mosi-oa-Tunya Victoria Falls, Zambia 2009

  • For example, black lechwe (Kobus leche smithermani), tsessebe, and sitatunga dominate the Bangweulu basin, while the Kafue lechwe and Burchell's zebra are amongst the most prominent herbivores in Kafue Flats.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • Other herbivores attracted to these verdant pastures include elephant (Loxidonta africana), Burchell's zebra (Equus burchelli) and eland (Taurotragus oryx).

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • Burchell's zebra (Equus burchellii), Gonarezhou, Zimbabwe.

    Zambezian and Mopane woodlands 2008

  • Also re breeding back-- did you see my comment following yours on O & P about breeding back the quagga from the conspecific Burchell's zebra, which was going well last I heard?

    Ancestry and Reversion 2007

  • Burchell's zebra, which is completely striped down to the hoofs, and is intermediate in many particulars between the true zebra of the mountains and Burchell's zebra of the plains.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • He pointed behind us, and I beheld a superb painted zebra (Burchell's, I think), following our track with palpitating nostrils.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Africa, the chances are as 100 to 1 that they will not be suffered to bring back the species; and so, to Burchell's zebra, the world is to-day saying "Farewell!"

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • The true Burchell's zebra is now regarded as _extinct_!

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

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