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

Question

help

Answer 1

I'm confused

Answer 2

They are light-grey with dark-grey stripes.

Answer 3

Neither - they're black and white striped.....

Answer 4

why do u want to know that?lol, do u think about that all the time and is it what attracts u the most? have u seen the cartoon "madagascar"?  the zebra in the film asked it a lot lol...cuz it was funny...so dont ask the questions that zebras ask....

the answer: white and black stripes, together, make the skin of zebra

Answer 5

Zebras are brown horses that have been painted with black stripes AND white stripes.

Answer 6

White with black stripes.

If you look at their tummy the black stripes run out and it's just white. So It must be white with black stripes

Answer 7

White with black

Answer 8

Intermittent i would say, just to on the safe side!

Answer 9

Harry, this question appears almost daily.  They are black with white stripes.

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Edit:  Congrats to Georiga.  The only person that has the answer 100% correct.

Answer 10

The zebra has black skin so it is technically black with white stripes. The zebra has a white belly , legs and muzzle for increased camouflage.

There are three reasons why they cannot be concidered white with black stripes (quote from wikipedia)

   1. White equids would not survive well in the African plains or forests.

   2. The quagga, an extinct Plains zebra subspecies, 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.

Answer 11

I think it is a matter of opinion.

The answer to this question comes down to perspective. Many zoologists would say that a zebra is white because its stripes end towards the belly and the belly is mostly white. Others would say that a zebra is black because if you shaved all the fur off a zebra the skin is mostly black. So it really depends on how you want to look at it

http://www.sciencebob.com/lab/q-zebrastr...

Answer 12

Neither they have black and white stripes. There is not one colour on top of another.

Edit: I was wrong

Answer 13

Zebras are white with black stripes, although vary rare they can also be black with white stripes

Answer 14

Zebras are described as black with white stripes rather than the reverse for the following three reasons:

1. White equids would not survive well in the African plains or forests.

2. The quagga, an extinct Plains zebra subspecies, 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.

The fact that some zebras have pure white bellies and legs is not very strong evidence for a white background, since many animals of different colors have white or light colored bellies and legs.

Hope this helps :)

Answer 15

Zebra's skin is  black with white stripes.

Answer 16

If you look closely, you can see that they are white with black stripes.

You can see that this one has a white belly!

http://www.jpbutler.com/franklin-park-zo...

Answer 17

The black with white stripes model is probably correct, because the skin is black to start with and also, the gene for black in all equines existed long before the white one - so the white striping came along later in evolutionary history.

Answer 18

white with black stripes