Why do zebras have stripes? Contrary to what's often assumed, the black-and-white bands aren't used for camouflage. According to the traditional theory, stripes allow a zebra to hide against ...

Zebras may not be nearly as sneaky as some people thought. A study casts doubt on the idea that those magnificent stripes are used to hide the horse-like creatures from predators. Freelance writer ...

Brenda Larison's research mentioned in this article was funded by the National Geographic Society. How the zebra got its stripes might at first seem like an esoteric question. But it has fascinated ...

If you’ve always thought of a zebra’s stripes as offering some type of camouflaging protection against predators, it’s time to think again, suggest scientists at the University of Calgary and UC Davis ...

Conventional wisdom says a zebra's black-and-white stripes camouflage the animal in tall grass—the better to evade the colorblind lion. But a new study says the pattern scrambles the vision of a ...