Alabama Safari Park welcomes new rare Grevy zebra foal

The Alabama Safari Park has welcomed its newest resident, a male Grevy zebra foal./Source: Alabama Safari Park

The Alabama Safari Park has a new resident.

Park officials say the male Grevy zebra foal, named York, was born in late summer after a year-long pregnancy.

Known as the imperial zebra, Grevy’s zebras are also the most threatened of the three species of zebra, the other two being the plains zebra and the mountain zebra.

With fewer than 3,000 remaining in the wild and approximately 200 in zoological facilities in the United States, Grevy’s zebras are in very serious danger of extinction.

The gestation period for zebras ranges from 10-12 months. A newborn zebra’s stripes will turn from brown to black sometime between the first 9-18 months of life. Every birth is important as Grevy’s zebras are one of Africa’s most endangered large mammals.

Visitors can watch York enjoying his new habitat and the rest of the herd while exploring the safari drive-thru.