Kuo P'o (editor ); Shan hai ching (AD324)
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Taken from: AC Moule; Some Foreign Birds and Beasts in Chinese Books
The earliest mention of the zebra, and that rather open to doubt:
There is an animal shaped like a horse, with a white head; striped like a tiger with a red tail. The sound is like yao (or a chant); the name is called lu-shu. If you wear it (?the skin) you are sure to have descendants.
Kuo P'o wrote a eulogy of the lu-shu, from which the line :
The lu-shu is an animal with a horse's body and a tiger's stripes.
Note: the description of the animal is taken from the first part of his book which is devoted to China. Not to foreign countries. This puts great doubt on the identification