Is a zebra white with black stripes or black with white stripes?

Question

I'm just curious

Answer 1

You look at there noses. It is black so if you ever shave a zebra his skin would be black and the stripes are white. Hope I helped you out!

Answer 2

I think it's white with black stripes.

Answer 3

I think it's white with Black Stripes

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Answer 4

Here's a poem to answer your question. kind of

"Zebra Question"

I asked the zebra

Are you black with white stripes?

Or white with black stripes?

And the zebra asked me,

Or you good with bad habits?

Or are you bad with good habits?

Are you noisy with quiet times?

Or are you quiet with noisy times?

Are you happy with some sad days?

Or are you sad with some happy days?

Are you neat with some sloppy ways?

Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?

And on and on and on and on

And on and on he went.

I'll never ask a zebra

About stripes

Again.

By Shel Silverstien

Answer 5

Black with white stripes and white blotchy bellies for camouflage. See below link for excellent info.  

Answer 6

It is definitely black with white stripes...Saw it on a documentary by Sir David Attenborough

Answer 7

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Zebras are black or dark animals with white stripes and their bellies have a large white blotch for camouflage purposes. Some zebras have brown "shadow stripes" in between the white and black coloring.

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

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

The quagga, an extinct Plains zebra subspecies, had the zebra striping pattern in the front of the animal, but had a dark rump.

When the region between the pigmented bands becomes too wide, secondary stripes emerge, as if suppression was weakening.

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