BIRTH OF RARE STAR – WITH STRIPES – IS UK FIRST FOR NINE YEARS!

Blackpool Zoo celebrates birth of Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra (First broadcast quality video footage available)*Ecstatic keepers at Blackpool Zoo have really earned their stripes after becoming the first UK team to successfully breed a Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra in the last nine years. The adorable foal is also the first of its species to arrive in the whole of Europe in 2011, with just 12 born around the globe in 2010. Named Tebogo, a South African name which means ‘we are thankful’, by keepers, he takes the number of Hartmann’s Mountain Zebras in captivity in the UK to 14. After