For example, zebra print pairs wonderfully with solid colors, or as an accent in a color drenched room. Even some bolder, organic patterns, like florals can work if the colors are complementary.

Most horses today are treasured for their ability to run, work, or be ridden, but have lost their wild-type camouflage: pale hair with zebra-like dark stripes known as the Dun pattern. Now an ...

How did the zebra get its stripes? The answer may be a gene called Agouti, which the scientists have found governs color patterns in deer mice, the most widespread mammal in North America.

Zebra Stripes, Leopard Prints and a Horse of a Different Color: A How-to Guide on Mixing Patterns. By Kit Hamlen | February 26, 2015 | 9:30am. Style Features.

To find out more, the colleagues looked at why some zebra patterns are more eye-popping than others. The researchers photographed the plains zebra, the most widespread and common zebra species, at ...

Horseflies misjudge landings on zebra patterns, compared with solid gray or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black-and-white pattern.

So if a zebra's stripes aren't used for camouflage, what are they for? One possibility is that banding patterns are used to recognize members of the same species at a distance.