Silver when a child, read about an animal which was thought to be extinct called a Quagga with half stripes. When researching the story, Silverston was fortunate enough to meet with Professor Reinhold Rau, the founder of the Quagga Project Association who started the investigation that ultimately proved the Quagga is merely a subspecies of zebra that looks different rather than an entirely separate species. The Quagga Project Association has with the help of volunteers has been trying to breed this extinct variety "back to life" and a foal was born and named after the lead character in the film.
Despite being rated G by the MPAA the film uses the word "ass" once although the MPAA had gotten strict since 2010.
One of the two animated films for Steve Buscemi of 2013 the other being Monsters University (2013) the prior of which was rated G.
The second collaboration with Phil LaMarr and Stephanie Sheh after Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011) of which was Sheh's first voice over role in an animated film that is not dubbed work.
The eighth of the very few theatrically released animated films of the 2010s to be rated G by the MPAA. The previous seven animated films to be rated such had been Toy Story 3 (2010), Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), Rio (2011), Cars 2 (2011), Winnie the Pooh (2011), Adventures in Zambezia (2012), and Monsters University (2013). The next seven animated films with that rating would be later Rio 2 (2014), The Hero of Color City (2014), The Peanuts Movie (2015), Cars 3 (2017), Animal Crackers (2017), Charming (2018), Toy Story 4 (2019), and A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019).