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San rock art depicting a zebra. With their distinctive black-and-white stripes, zebras are among the most recognizable mammals. They have been associated with beauty and grace, with naturalist Thomas Pennant describing them in 1781 as "the most elegant of quadrupeds". Zebras have been popular in photography, with some wildlife photographers ...
How the zebra got its stripes has been the subject of folk tales, some of which involve it being scorched by fire. The San people associated zebra stripes with water, rain and lighting due to its dazzling pattern. [40] Black and white stripes on the Botswana flag represent the stripes of a zebra.
Tira is the first polka dot zebra found in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.Similarly patterned zebra foals have been seen before in Botswana. Tira, a plains zebra (Equus quagga) who is mostly black, with white spots, was first discovered and named by a local guide named Anthony Tira.
The zebra spider (Salticus scenicus) is a common jumping spider of the Northern Hemisphere.Their common name refers to their vivid black-and-white colouration, [1] whilst their scientific name derives from Salticus from the Latin for “jump”, and the Greek scenicus, translating to “theatrical” or “of a decorative place,” in reference to the flashy, zebra-like coloration of the species.
As with all zebra species, Grévy's zebra's pelage has a black and white striping pattern. The stripes are narrow and close-set, broader on the neck, and extending to the hooves. [17] The belly and the area around the base of the tail lack stripes and are just white in color, which is unique to the Grévy's zebra. Foals are born with brown and ...
[The Pink and White Album: Amazing Albino Animals]Even so, wearing blond stripes when everyone else in your crew has adapted to black stripes does likely pose some challenges to albino zebras.In a ...
The characteristic black and white 'zebra' [3] stripes of this genus have two different origins. [4] In the simplest form, the white stripes are caused by an absence of the pigment in the cuticle. [4] This mechanism is found in species of the subgenus Anaprionus. [4]
Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. [2] [3] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. The boldly striped black and white wing pattern is aposematic, warning off predators