Zebra Nail Designs Biography
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Zebra nail art is such a staple. It goes with everything, works in every color and manages to be a totally neutral pattern. All hail the zebra! This tutorial works best with a long, thin brush for the stripes, you can find a good one in the craft section of most Wal Marts! In this tutorial I used China Glaze Spontaneous, ACO Ballet Shoes, Barry M Instant Nail Effects Gold foil and a Kiss nail art brush in Black. If you want to do an ombre base, but you don't know how check out theOmbre Nails tutorial. Don't worry about it being perfectly symmetrical. Nature isn't always perfect. Like the look of zebra but hand painting isn't your thing? Konad has a plate that does a perfect zebra stamp every time. You can find a link in the sidebar on the right.
There are three species of zebras: the plains zebra, the Grévy's zebra and the mountain zebra. The plains zebra and the mountain zebra belong to the subgenus Hippotigris, but Grévy's zebra is the sole species of subgenus Dolichohippus. The latter resembles an ass, to which it is closely related, while the former two are more horse-like. All three belong to the genus Equus, along with other living equids.
The unique stripes of zebras make them one of the animals most familiar to people. They occur in a variety of habitats, such as grasslands, savannas, woodlands, thorny scrublands,mountains, and coastal hills. However, various anthropogenic factors have had a severe impact on zebra populations, in particular hunting for skins and habitat destruction. Grévy's zebra and the mountain zebra are endangered. While plains zebras are much more plentiful, one subspecies, the quagga, became extinct in the late 19th century – though there is currently a plan, called the Quagga Project, that aims to breed zebras that are phenotypically similar to the quagga in a process called breeding back.
The name "zebra" in English dates back to c.1600, from Italian zebra, perhaps from Portuguese, which in turn is said to be Congolese(as stated in the Oxford English Dictionary). The Encarta Dictionary says its ultimate origin is uncertain, but perhaps it may come from Latin equiferus meaning "wild horse"; from equus ("horse") and ferus ("wild, untamed"). The word was traditionally pronounced with a long initial vowel, but over the course of the twentieth century, a vowel shift occurred in England, leading to the modern UK and Commonwealth pronunciation with a short initial vowel. The pronunciation with a long initial vowel remains standard in the United States.
Zebras evolved among the Old World horses within the last 4 million years. Grévy's zebras (and perhaps also Mountain Zebras) are, together with asses and donkeys, in a separate lineage from other zebra lineages. This means either that striped equids evolved more than once, or that common ancestors of zebras and asses were striped and only zebras retained the stripes. Extensive stripes are posited to have been of little use to equids that live in low densities in deserts (like asses and some horses) or ones that live in colder climates with shaggy coats and annual shading (like some horses).
Fossils of an ancient equid were discovered in the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Hagerman, Idaho. It was named the Hagerman horse with a scientific name ofEquus simplicidens. It is believed to have been similar to the Grévy's zebra. The animals had stocky zebra-like bodies and short, narrow, donkey-like skulls. Grévy's zebra also has a donkeylike skull. The Hagerman horse is also called the American zebra or Hagerman zebra. There are three extant species. Collectively, two of the species have eight subspecies (seven extant). Zebra populations are diverse, and the relationships between, and the taxonomicstatus of, several of the subspecies are not well known.
