Houston Zoo welcomes a new zebra Published: Tags: HOUSTON – There’s a new zebra in town. Rosalita, a Grant’s zebra, came to the Houston Zoo from Brownsville. Rosalita is nearly a year old and joins the Houston Zoo’s 8-year-old female, Kapuki. Guests who formerly spotted stripes at the zoo in the giraffe barn can now visit zebras in their new location near the entrance of the African Forest, next to the pygmy hippo habitat. There are three species of zebras: Grevy’s, mountain, and plains. Grant’s zebras are the smallest subspecies of plains zebras and have broad, well-defined stripes. They are herbivores, and their diet consists of grasses and hay. Grant’s zebras live in the savannahs of east and south Africa.