The answer's as plain as black and white. Zebras have been absent for more than four years, according to curator of mammals Ken Kaemmerer. "We got them just a couple months ago, and this is their ...

Scientists think they know how zebras got their stripes – and the answer is far from black and white. They say that ... to land on stripes – and that zebra-sized bands are particularly ...

Experimental work had previously shown that such flies tend to avoid black-and-white striped surfaces, but many hypotheses for zebra stripes have been proposed since Alfred Russel Wallace and ...

How the zebra got its stripes is a perennial topic of debate. While some scientists claim the black and white stripes act as camouflage, others say that they deter insects. Researchers studying ...