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Upon returning from the airstrip, we stopped to view some Giraffe and Zebra enjoying the morning sunshine outside Mountain lodge. While watching a sparring match between two young male Giraffes, our attention was drawn to a zebra that had taken to peeling off strips of bark from an Acacia tree! Not only was it "debarking" the tree it was crunching it up in mouth and than swallowing it! For an animal that is supposedly a grazer this was odd behaviour indeed. It was a remarkable sighting one which I have never heard of before and it served as humourable discusion for the rest of the day.

Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by Ian Mey, Date: 15 April 2008