What color is a zebra?

Question

omg which color is a zebra:

white with black stripes

or

black with white stripes?

Answer 1

ha ha white with black stripes. You can tell by looking at their stomach.  

Answer 2

White with black stripes. I believe that the stripes are black.

Answer 3

It's actually black with white stripes because babies are born dark colored and look at the nose of a zebra.

Answer 4

actually its black and white if you shave the hair off it will still be striped black and white  

Answer 5

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.

HERE ARE SOME OPINIONS! =]

1.Very funny actually, as white people say white with black stripes and Africans say black with white strips.

2. According to a university research associate, who was answering this question:

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.

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3.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.

4. Is the zebra a white animal with black stripes, or a black animal with white stripes? My dictionary says that they have "black or dark-brown stripes on a whitish background." And, zebras sometimes have a light-colored belly with no stripes (usually the belly is striped, too). That would seem to settle the above question, although my encyclopedias mention black (or dark brown) and white stripes, and do not mention any background.

A light-colored belly is not very strong evidence, as many animals, of many colors and species have light-colored bellies. It is not a strong indication of the true color of such animals. So, a zebra may be black with white stripes, and sometimes have a light-colored belly.

Horses, while they are not descended from zebras, are related to zebras. Rarely a horse will have faint stripes. From what I can find, only dark horses, never white horses, sometimes have stripes. So, from that line of evidence, it would seem that the zebra is black with white stripes.

For me: I will just call it black and white!

LOL. Good Luck!