Along the sides of zebras, vertical black stripes simply absorb sunlight without being tempered by this phenomenon, putting most of the zebra’s body at a thermoregulatory disadvantage.

Black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? The answer is black with white stripes, and we know that, because some zebras are born without their stripes.

Zebras are black with white stripes due to their fur and melanin production. Various theories explain why zebras are striped, ...

'The results provide no support at all for the idea that the zebra’s stripes provide some type of anti-predator camouflaging effect' ...

A runaway zebra has captured the internet’s attention after escaping in Rutherford County. While he remains on the loose, his companion “Stripes” is safe at a local stable as the search ...

If the zebra were piebald, like a circus horse, instead of being covered with narrow stripes, he would be sufficiently conspicuous to his friends in the daytime; yet, obviously, such markings ...

At worst, they transmit disease. Scientists have known since the 1980s that zebra stripes repel flies, and many believe that zebras evolved their distinctive stripes because of this advantage.

The wavy undulations of a sperm’s tail make striped patterns in space-time, which potentially follow patterns proposed by Alan Turing.

Several studies have found that zebra stripes are thicker in tsetse fly-prone areas than in other areas without them. Read more here: ...

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