Zebra birth & Wild Dog interaction

We witnessed an amazing moment here in the Moremi Game Reserve- Botswana one morning in Sept 2009 of mum giving birth with the foal kicking and being dragged along the African plains!
@ 2.22 mins into the video it's "Happy birthday" time!
The little foal was up and walking in just over 5 mins.
We became a little concerned when the now two started to move in the direction of a pack of 10 Wild Dogs, however mum is able to drop the after birth at the most opportune time and the last minute or so of this video, you can see the WD pack scrapping over the spoils of the placenta!
We saw mum & foal a few times over the next week and both were doing very well.
A very memorable and unforgettable experience.
(Apologies for the lack of audio in the first half of this video.)

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Zebrabirth
• and
• Wild
• Dogs
• Botswana
• Moremi
• Game
• Reserve
• Mapula
• Lodge

[sschlomo]

@ Cdsport

Reading the comments and video description will help.

[sschlomo]

@ viajnica 1

it was a Longtailed Shrike taking off.

[adrienne083]

cool video. what were those wild dogs eating? I pray it wasn't the baby zebra! :(

[sschlomo]

@adrienne083

If you scroll down to the video description, you;ll find that it was the zebra placenta that the Wild dogs were squabbling over.

[sschlomo]

Correct....as stated

[chloe46395]

baby zebra:HELP HELP

mother zebra:kick baby kickkkkkkkk

[IncognitaNinja]

lil' zebra: Let me out! let me out! :)

[Nitedevil1986]

@adrienne083 It was the placenta that they were eating. Mum was wise enough to leave the afterbirth at the opportune moment!

[motorhead1964]

that is amazing and im happy it didnt die as soon as it was born..

[BreyerRules123]

'Hey guys is there anything stuck to my butt' LOL!!

[NoNiceNamesLeft]

@GianMaaark00 imagine walking around the street with a midget sticking out of your ass lol.

[GianMaaark00]

OH MY GOD! A ZEBRA SHITTING ANOTHER ZEBRA! THAT IS JUST DISGUSTING!

[vandercb3]

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