This guy doesn't think his stripes are all that good at camouflaging him. Zebra stripes are striking and beautiful, but what purpose do they serve? A new study suggests the stripes help the ...

Zebra Stripes May Serve A Totally Different Purpose Than Once Thought By Jennifer Welsh 2014-04-01T15:12:00Z ...

The most common species is the plains zebra with around 750,000 animals thought to live in the wild, ... Every zebra has a different stripe pattern. Image source, Getty Images.

Digging deeper into the zebra’s past, researchers have explored how genetics shape stripe patterns. Some believe that striping evolved not once, but multiple times across different zebra species.

Biting flies slurp their meals from the blood of Savannah animals. At best, the flies are annoying. At worst, they transmit disease. Scientists have known since the 1980s that zebra stripes repel ...