Rangers are worried that the unusual-looking foal may be excluded by its herd

A newborn zebra with spots instead of stripes has prompted “a stampede” of tourists in Kenya’s Masai Mara national reserve.

As news spread on social media dozens of vans full of tourists wanting a photograph surrounded the scared foal. Felix Migoya, from the Mara Tour Guides and Drivers Association, said. “It’s a big spectacle and tourists in their droves want a piece of it.”

Rangers at the park, which is on the route of the great wildebeest migration, are anxious that the foal may be ostracised by its dazzle, or herd, a common fate for unusual-looking young.

The reserve, in southwest Kenya, is teeming with visitors watching as a million wildebeest and other animals cross the Mara River from the Serengeti, in Tanzania, into the