Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?

Live Science ^ | 11/21/2021 | By Jennifer Welsh

[.44 Special]

You must know, Billy, Ethel, and Studebaker Hawk!

[Chickensoup]

Thank goodness for zebras. If it weren’t for them, what would they put a picture of in children’s alphabet books for the letter “Z”?

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We’d be more familiar with the zokor, zorella, and zorro.

[Steely Tom]

You must know, Billy, Ethel, and Studebaker Hawk!

Oh yeah.

Billy The Mountain.

[Steely Tom]

But I think it’s “Studebaker Hoch.”

[Tallguy]

NFL Zebras are all blind. Not born that way, but when they get their stripes, they mysteriously can no longer see.

[Exit148]

Ain’t nature great!!

[Tucker39]

The fact that only the stripes are black, on a white background is obvious. They are white with black stripes.

[Flick Lives]

It’s amazing how the hairs know what color to be depending on what part of the body they are on.

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It’s an animal so weird looking that if it didn’t exist, and a child drew a picture of a “horse” with black and white stripes, one would tell the child they have a vivid imagination.

[Eagles6]

🤣 Beat me to it!

[Mr. Blond]

I’m not sure how dazzle paint works out in the ocean. But we should bring it back.

[Flick Lives]

It’s not actually for camoflauge, it’s so predators can’t get a visual lock on an individual within a herd.

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Interestingly, the same concept was used in WWII to camouflage ships by painting irregular patterns on the hull to break up the silhouette.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Doesn't look like blending with the local environment....looks pretty darn bold to me."

I didn't think I needed to add the /s sarcasm indicator, but I guess I was wrong. My point was that in the photo that prompted my comment, the zebra obviously didn't blend in at all.

[heavy metal]

i triple dog dare anyone to ask stevie wonder this question... 😁...

[BDParrish]

I saw a program on this, and the quick answer is that the submariners missed when aiming their torpedos through the periscope. It has to do with properly identifying the exact size and speed of the ship cuz ya gotta lead ‘em. Please somebody correct me with my thanks, but this answer was satisfying to me.

[OJDIDIT2]

What’s black and white and red all over?

A sunburned Zebra.

[Covenantor]

&>)

[Jewbacca]

There are zebras who are white with black stripes.

These white zebras are known as “evil zebras”.

[rlmorel]

This is not a particularly fearsome or attractive vessel:

But if you add a little dazzle camp as I did with Photoshop, she does look more warlike:

[rlmorel]

My wife and I were driving around up in Vermont a few months ago, came around a corner, and saw this standing on a hill side with a goat and a cow!

We had a "Did you just see that?" moment then I turned around and went back!

Not what I expected to see standing on a hillside grazing in Vermont. All those horses are white up there, you know?

[oldasrocks]

Is your butt white with black stripes too? Maybe this whole thing started with a shortage on TP and they grew the black stripes to hide the fact.