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...second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered...
...them were bought in the U.S. for about $900 million. This year (no sunnier than last) the market will grow by 25%, adding up to more than a billion dollars. Never before has there been such a phantasmagoria of shapes, sizes, colors and prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers...
...result of the first successful embryo transfer between two different equine species. A year ago, Veterinarian William R. Foster, who is assistant director of the Louisville Zoo, and Veterinarian Scott D. Bennett of Simpsonville, Ky., synchronized Kelly's reproductive cycle with that of a pregnant Grant's zebra residing at the zoo. Flushing out a ten-day-old embryo from the zebra's uterus with a sterile solution, the two vets implanted it in the womb of the quarter horse. Safely lodged, the embryo gestated for 366 days, slightly longer than the average term for either species...
Foster and Bennett believe that similar feats of embryo transfer will enable the zoo to breed rare equine animals with rapidity. Says Foster: "A zebra's pregnancy normally lasts eleven months. If the embryo is flushed, the female zebra cycles again and can reproduce once more. If we use surrogate recipients, one such zebra can reproduce as many as ten offspring yearly...
Foster deliberately selected an unendangered Grant's zebra (pop. more than 300,000) for his initial experiment. With the newborn's safe arrival last week, however, the scientists will attempt to repeat the experiment with embryos of such rare types of zebras as Grevy's (pop. 15,000), Hartmann's mountain (7,000) and Cape mountain...