Photo of the Day #285: Plains Zebra

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A Plains zebra (Equus quagga), photographed July 15th, 2008 at the Philadelphia zoo.


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Zebras are the coolest! And as always, your photography skills just blow me away. I could almost hate you for that. :-)

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