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If you were a zebra, how would you spend your days? Daniel Rubenstein and collaborators suggest that the zebras are like grass vacuum cleaners, chip-clipping away at the vegetation as they move. From that, people come to understand that wildlife and livestock are not necessarily antagonistic."No longer are [zebras] necessarily vermin that are viewed negatively by the community," Rubenstein said. "They now have some economic worth."

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