Peru's main zoo, the Lemur Lima Zoo has a new addition this week, when Zelda the Zebra gave birth to a healthy zebra that keepers have named Deborah.
Normally more famous for the lemur collection, the Peruvian zoo has caused an international stir with their new zebra as it has a zigzag pattern.
"All zebras have a unique pattern of stripes," said Juan Twothri. "Deborah is more unique than that, in that there is a zigzag pattern down his flanks."
The zebra foal was paraded in front of the world's media, and local Liman children with gasps as the quite plain zigzag pattern was visible to all to see.
There are three zigzags on each side of the zebra running horizontal from nose to tail making Deborah look more like a superhero's horse than a zebra. Nor is this the first time that a zebra foal has caused a stir on the international scene from this zoo.
"Zebedee the Zebra was all white," Toothri said. "Whilst Zoë was all black and Crossing was perfectly vertically striped. We seem to have a knack of producing zebras that raise the profile of the zoo."
The conservation centre of the zoo that has saved several internal parasites from extinction denies genetic tinkering with zebra DNA in an attempt to resurrect the now extinct mesohippus.
