I reread Brian Herne's book "White Hunters" a couple weeks ago. He made a mention of hunting Maneless Zebra in Sudan or possibly Uganda. Does anyone here know what he's talking about??



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Don't know what Herne was saying but Grant's zebra ranges into the Sudan and I've read of sightings of maneless Grant's. If it was Zambia or Mozambique, Herne was referring to, in those days there were still plenty of Selous's Zebra and I have seen reference to them as "maneless zebra", as well.

Toby,
I had the same question after I read White Hunters. I found out that the maneless zebra is equus burchelli cunninghami. There is a zoo in the Czech Republic that has some of these zebras,the Ziln Zoo. Great book.

Kathi

I happen to be reading "White Hunters" right now. Haven't got to the part about the maneless zebra yet, but I'm near the end of the book, so probably soon. It is a great read, though.

What I've found strange is that there is no mention of John "Pondoro" Taylor in the book - at all. At least not so far, and I've looked in the index and haven't found anything.

However, now I'm thinking, as I write this, that the book is about Professional Hunters who take people on safari. If I recall, Taylor never worked as a safari guide.

A few months ago, I was at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), in Toronto. I admired quite a collection of European mounted African antelope horns, all on one wall. I figured that the horns were all quite old.

Last night, while reading "White Hunters", I found out that PH Tony Archer had collected specimens for the ROM. I'm sure these would have been his animals.

The subspecies of the Grant�s zebra are most often referred to as the maneless zebra:
http://www.ebeltoftzoo.dk/index.php?o=017f89cc701b7097a3cd4c55d9350691&animal_id=57

Scroll down to Grant�s Zebra and you�ll find another reference to sightings of maneless zebra but under Equus quagga boehmi. There are many such discrepancies in the area of animal classification. "Quagga" has largely supplanted "Burchelli" and "boehmi" applys to Grants.
http://www.olygamefarm.com/info.htm