are zebra's black with white stripes, or white with black strips?

Question

are zebra's black with white stripes, or white with black strips?

Answer 1

who cares!!

Answer 2

Zebras are in fact nothing more than a horse with good fashion sense. The animals (i.e. the horses) are completely white. The horse adds the black stripes (the black stripes are often attached using Velcro) to their body thus becoming Zebras. The black stripes are often removed and hung from nearby trees for safekeeping prior to the animal going to bed.

This practice, limited to horses of the African continent led to the well known saying "a leopard cannot change its spots; but a zebra, well that is just a horse of a different color"

Answer 3

The Zebra is white with black stripes, and there are also a couple different kinds of Zebra with different patterns of stripes.

Answer 4

This is what it says here on this site.

Stripes
Zebra stripes are white with black stripes, or black with white stripes.[1] These stripes are typically vertical on the head, neck, forequarters, and main body, with horizontal stripes at the rear and on the legs of the animal. The zebra crossing is named after the zebra's white on black stripes.

Zoologists believe that the stripes act as a camouflage mechanism. This is accomplished in several ways. First, the vertical striping helps the zebra hide in grass. While seeming absurd at first glance considering that grass is neither white nor black, the zebra's main predator, the lion, is color blind. A zebra standing still in tall grass may not be noticed at all by a lion and as zebras are herd animals the stripes help in camouflage is by confusing the lion — a number of zebras standing or moving close together may appear as one large animal, making it more difficult for the lion to pick out any single zebra to attack.[2] A herd of zebras scattering to avoid a predator will also represent to that predator a confused mass of vertical stripes travelling in multiple directions making it difficult for the predator to track an individual visually as it seperates from it's herdmates.

Stripes are also believed to play a role in social interactions, with slight variations of the pattern allowing the animals to distinguish between individuals.

A more recent theory, supported by experiment, posits that the disruptive coloration is also an effective means of confusing the visual system of the blood-sucking tsetse fly.[citation needed] Alternative theories include that the stripes coincide with fat patterning beneath the skin, serving as a thermoregulatory mechanism for the zebra, and that wounds sustained disrupt the striping pattern to clearly indicate the fitness of the animal to potential mates.

African bushmen of Guinea refer to these stripes in their native Madango as "sukuku" which means "lightning" and plays an important role in the customs of the eastern region of Kankan. In ancient beliefs it was thought zebras were sent by the spirit of lightning and rain to remind people that time changes, good seasons of abundant fertility might turn out to be droughts, that giving life may take another's life away, that black can't exist without white.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebras

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebras

Answer 5

Some are black with white stripes while the others are white with black stripes
The black with white stripes are south americans while the white with black stripes are north americans

Answer 6

Looking at the stomach of the Zebra, you can see that there is more white on it then black, and the black fades into the stomach.

Answer 7

I always think of them as white with black stripes. Of course, I could be wrong.

Answer 8

Could go either way I would guess but looking at this image it looks like they're white with black stripes:

Answer 9

its white with black stripes both way its irrelevant i imagine your education is purely playing you adult males. Write about how god began with a white canvas and in problem-free words had a touch black so particularly of in problem-free words making some black he kept the black and in problem-free words made them striped

Answer 10

White with black. I guess because it seems that if they were black, their stripes would be grey, not white. I don't know... just my opinion!

Answer 11

Neither. Although there is usually (not always) more white than black, there is no "underlying" fur colour with the other "on top".
Shave off the fur and you'll see the skin is a grey colour.