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The average top speed of a zebra is believed to be up between 35 and 43 miles-per-hour. A camel has a top speed of up to 40 miles-per-hour and can hold a 25 miles-per-hour pace up to an hour long. Today, Evangeline Downs, typically occupied by horses, hosted an event to put the top speed of camels and zebras to the test. WINNER! WINNER! Tammy’s Grocery on Jefferson Street in Lafayette sells winning scratch off ticket Director of Operations at Evangeline Downs Anthony Breaux says they have been planning an event like this for several years before finally getting the...

Zoo officials said the 3-year-old has been lonely since losing both his parents and not being taken in by a kangaroo family next door, but there may be brighter days ahead — a girlfriend.SEOUL, South Korea — A young lonely zebra had a rare day out when he ran away from a zoo in Seoul and trotted around the streets of the South Korean capital, before being sedated and captured a few hours later. Sero, a 3-year-old male whose Korean name refers to his vertical stripes, escaped from the Seoul Children’s Grand Park zoo Thursday afternoon by breaking through the...

Pickaway County, Ohio deputies killed a zebra on Sunday evening after it mauled a man’s arm, nearly ripping it from his body. Deputies with the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a zebra attack in Circleville, Ohio just after 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. During the 911 call, Ronald Clifton, 72, said he was attacked by a zebra, and requested that the rescue squad be sent right away. The dispatcher sounded shocked and needed to make sure that Clifton said he was attacked by a zebra, and he confirmed it. “I think he tore my arm off…send a chopper,”...

When you deny involvement when there is no crime, you sound suspect. Things have become completely unhinged in the nation’s capital, so why not add to the mayhem? For a few days now, it has been a story of mild interest in the area that five zebras have escaped from a compound where they had been kept. They have reportedly splintered to evade capture, with one trio running off and the remaining duo taking a different escape plan. It’s the kind of nonsensical story that is basically welcomed, what with the world in complete disarray from the border, to the...

A highly dangerous zebra cobra snake has escaped its home and is on the loose in Raleigh, North Carolina, officials said on Tuesday. Raleigh Police Department issued an alert to locals to watch out for the venomous creature after it escaped its owner and was was spotted on a porch at 5:10 p.m. EST Monday, according to CBS affiliate WNCN. Animal control was called after it was initially spotted, but by the time they had arrived, the snake had left the area. Zebra cobras are known for their dangerous venom and are native to southern Africa, including Angola, Namibia and...

A man in his late teens was slashed to death with a machete in broad daylight in central London, as violent crime levels return to pre-lockdown levels in the capital. The teen was hacked to death at around 5:30 on Monday evening, close to Oxford Street, one of the busiest shopping streets in the country.

Former Rep. Joe Heck received criticism this week after he posted a picture on Instagram of himself posing next to a slain zebra with the caption, “Great start to safari — two off my list: Zebra and Black Wildebeast.” But Heck’s apparent affinity for big-game hunting in South Africa didn’t just upset some in the public. The former Nevada Senate candidate earned a lashing from an organization he lobbied on behalf of this spring: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Anders Vendel, a famous chef, restaurant owner and TV star from Malmö, Sweden, was savagely beaten by three "Muslim" men because they thought he looked like "Mr. Trump", Sydsvenskan reports. In a Facebook post that was later removed, Mr. Vendel – who is a well-known anti-Racist figure and a star of the TV show "The Struggle of the Chefs"– described the brutal assault that took place early Saturday morning in a late-night fast food restaurant in Malmö. "I am in the emergency room as of a couple of hours ago awaiting X-rays. I was beaten up by three Muslim men...

The Ueno zoo in Tokyo staged a fake animal escape on Tuesday with a caretaker dressed up as a life-size zebra wandering the park alleys, a drill designed to prepare for possible damage caused by earthquakes.

Biologists had originally thought zebra and donkey chromosomes to be incompatible.A rare but adorable cross-breed was introduced to the world this week at a zoo in Reynosa, Mexico. Khumba is the lovechild of Rayas, a female zebra, and Ignacio, a blue-eyed albino donkey. That makes Khumba a zonkey, one of only a few in the world. Though there are now living specimens of zonkeys at zoos in the U.S., Japan, China and elsewhere, biologists had originally thought zebra and donkey chromosomes were incompatible. But apparent genetic incongruity didn't stop Rayas and Ignacio from trying. According to WTVY, the two visited...

“Soldier in black and white uniform to conceal him while climbing trees. He stands in front of a house camouflaged to represent a fence and trees. Company F, 24th Engineers. American University, D.C. Army Engineer Corps..”

...Rock decided he'd stick with "Marty the Zebra", joking that it was "in honor of our zebra president, black and white, white and black." Rock added "I love our president, you know, but he's black and white, he appeals to all," Rock said. "That's what I'm going for….We ignore the President’s whiteness, but it’s there, it’s there,” Rock smiled and said.

DUBUQUE, Iowa – An Iowa man stopped outside a Dubuque bar with a small zebra and a parrot in his truck has been charged with drunken driving. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/22/iowa-man-with-zebra-parrot-in-truck-gets-dui/print#ixzz1vhvvxF00

The South Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have seized a zebra skin stolen from the house of a Mumbai-based businessman with the arrest of 31-year-old man. "The animal skin that was made into a trophy measuring 3 meters in length and two meters in width and is suspected to have been brought to India from abroad," said HGS Dhaliwal, deputy commissioner of Police (South). The accused have been identified as Deepak Yadav. He was apprehended on a tip-off from Jor Bagh area, where he was coming to hand it over to another businessman. Yadav told police that he had...

A MARONDERA woman is lucky to be alive after a pet zebra her family had been keeping over the last 10 years ran riot, biting off part of her breast and chewing off her thumb. Anne Mhidza, 40, managed to escape almost literally from “the jaws of death” after getting the zebra to release its vice-like grip by forcing open its mouth. Speaking from her hospital bed, Mhidza said a herd-boy employed by her family picked up the zebra while it was still a foal some 10 years ago. She said they decided to rear it along with their cattle....

Two zebras are back with their owner tonight after escaping from an animal training farm. Onlookers and California sheriff's deputies worked to corral two zebras roaming the streets of Carmichael Saturday night. One zebra was injured after it ran into traffic and hit a car. "There we saw the aftermath of an accident. When we asked the lady what happened she said, 'I was just hit with a zebra,' and she couldn't believe it either," witness Tom Turner said. Tim Tanaka took charge by roping off an area to keep the animal safe while a crowd of people gathered to...

The baby animal above is not a zebra. And it's not a donkey. It's a zedonk. With a zebra father and a donkey mother, the animal has clear black and white stripes on its legs and the brown-haired body of a donkey. The eye-catching filly was born last Wednesday night at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Dahlonega, Georgia, about 60 miles north of Atlanta. "She's absolutely beautiful," said Alison Womack, a volunteer at the preserve, adding that the foal is "fabulous, healthy, doing well." "We think we're going to name her Pippi, for Pippi Longstocking," said C.W. Wathen, the founder...

A fast-food outlet became the first in Britain to sell pizzas with an extra special topping — zebra, it emerged Sunday. Yummy Yummy Italia in Burnley, northern England, launched the controversial pizza after owner Arash Fard, 33, visited London and saw frogs’ legs pizzas on the menu, local newspaper the Lancashire Telegraph reported. The unusual meat toppings are bought from "alternative meats" supplier Kezie, which says the ingredients are ethically sourced from responsible farms. Fard's zebra creation is not his first time experimenting with ingredients. He told the Lancashire Telegraph that his range of buffalo, venison, kangaroo and crocodile pizzas...

A zebra from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus escaped his handler and led police on a chase through downtown Atlanta on Thursday afternoon. The black-and-white striped animal was spotted all over town -- in the parking lot near the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, near Centennial Olympic Park, CNN and on the Downtown Connector. He was finally captured on the interstate near the Grady curve. According to witnesses, he was galloping between lanes of traffic on the Downtown Connector before his capture. Daniel Nance saw a westbound zebra zipping down Alabama Street near MARTA's Five Points station....

Jamie Foxx signs on for ‘Zebra Murders’November 14th, 2007 - 2:48 am ICT by admin The pic is based on Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen’s 2006 book by the same name. Matt Carnahan writing the screenplay for the bigscreen. The plot revolves around a series of racially motivated serial killings — black on white — that took place in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974. Foxx will be playing the role of real-life cop Sanders, who was one of two black police detectives who led the team that cracked the case, reports Variety. The movie will also tell how...