can i ask you guys a question i never really got the answer to?

Question

are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes? i never really knew the answer and someone i knew asked me and i didn't know. can you guys help me so i could tell her. lol.

Answer 1

According to a biology site:

"It is generally believed that zebras are dark animals with white stripes where the pigmentation is inhibited. The pigment of the hair is found solely in the hair and not in the skin. The reasons for thinking that they were originally pigmented animals are that (1) white horses would not survive well in the African plains or forests; (2) there used to be a fourth species of zebra, the quagga (which was overeaten to extinction in the eighteen hundreds). The quagga had the zebra striping pattern in the front of the animal, but had a dark rump; (3) when the region between the pigmented bands becomes too wide, secondary stripes emerge, as if suppression was weakening."

http://7e.devbio.com/article.php?ch=1&id=5

Answer 2

They are white with black stripes. If you push away their hair, the black stripes grow out of white skin.

Answer 3

zebra is black with white stripes

Answer 4

It is for sure, Black with White stripes. :)

Answer 5

zebras are white on their belly, so that means that the black stripes are laid over a white background...

Answer 6

It's black with white strips because of the nose is black so therefor most of the body would've have been black

Answer 7

black than white over and over

Answer 8

they are gray with a lack of white or blaclk alternativly

Answer 9

There even