Question

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

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Answer 1

Hey!

Here you go!

> Zebra is one of the several animal species found mainly in Africa, which occur in a number of habitats. You can find them in mountains, savannas, coastal hills, scrublands and so on. They're closely related to a horse or a donkey and are of three different species, but unlike their relatives, they're striped.

> Evolved from the horses, these creatures have a coat which is striped with black and white, and there lies the origin of zebra crossing! Well, I ain't going to talk about crossings, I'm here to discuss about their stripes.

> Their stripes have a specialty, they're limited to only one which possesses them. Zebra have unique stripes, with unique patterns. You won't find a zebra with same stripes! Don't you believe me? Go find for yourselves!

> Anyway, the question is are they white on black or black on white? I think that's pretty simple! If you carefully examine a zebra's fur, you'll see that there lies dark fur underneath, without any white colored fur. What's the origin of a fur and its color? It grows from follicles that contain the pigment-generating melanocyte cells but wait a minute! These cells are deactivated in the white fur which means that they are black creatures with white stripes.

Answer 2

Hi Friend,

Your answer:

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

The question asked above is an age-old question. People have been debating since a long time about the fact whether zebra is a black animal with white stripes or white animal with black stripes? Now, we have the answer to this ages-old dilemma.

The embryos of zebras are completely black ! The white stripes on a zebra's body appear during its late-embryonic stage after the production of dark pigmentation in it stops. 

For further proof,
Studies show that the pattern on a zebra 's body is a result of pigment activation- black and inhibition- white. This shows that black is the actual color of the zebra's fur, and the white patches are the areas that lack the dark pigmentation. Also, researchers have proved that the skin below fur of most zebras is black.

Conclusion:-
Zebras are black with white stripes.

Hope it helps!