An introduction to zebras, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.
Presents the storybook to the film "Madagascar" wherein four zoo animals--giraffe, hippo, zebra, lion--get shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar on the way to being released back into the wild.
A young zebra is alone and scared when he is separated from his mother and attacked by jackals, but things get better when two boys rescue him and take him to their farm near Kenya's Samburu National Reserve to recover.