How did zebras get their stripes?

Question

How did zebras get their stripes?

Answer 1

there was a big sale at wall mart

Answer 2

They are born with it and were created with these stripes to confuse animals and stop them from getting attacked.

Answer 3

I guess god made them like that.

They mere made, and born with stripes, so really i do not think there is any explination.

Answer 4

It has been suggested by some zoologists that the stripes act as a complex camouflage mechanism. The virtual striped allow the zebra to hide in grassland. To our eyes this seems absurd, as the vivid black and white colouring stands out against the grass and the zebra does not appear very hidden. However, a zebras main predator is the lion, an animal noted for its colour blind sight, so theatricality a zebra standing in grass will not be noticed by a lion.

Alternative theories are concerned with stripes coinciding with fat patterns beneath the skin. This would serve as a thermoregulatory mechanism for the zebra, meaning that the stripe allow the zebra to control their body temperature.

Answer 5

Created like that.

Answer 6

They are just made like that. It is one of their adaptations- When a predator (lion, cheetah, leopard, etc.) is running after them, they all run, so that the predator sees all of the moving stripes and gets confused and gives up. If a zebra is alone, it's stripes are useless.

Answer 7

Through natural selection. Zebras who had stripes were harder to see in tall grass or in a group of trees. So they were preyed upon less by lions and other predators, they passed those genes on to their to their offspring.