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Zebra stripes are visible on the left back leg. The dun gene also produces light guard hairs in the mane and the tail. Grullo [1] (pronounced GREW-yo) [2] [a] or grulla is a color of horses in the dun family, characterized by tan-gray or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs ...
The San people associated zebra stripes with water, rain and lighting due to its dazzling pattern. [40] Black and white stripes on the Botswana flag represent the stripes of a zebra. The plains zebra is the national animal of the Republic of Botswana and its stripes are depicted on the country's flag.
How the zebra got its stripes has been the subject of folk tales, some of which involve it being scorched by fire. The Maasai proverb "a man without culture is like a zebra without stripes" has become popular in Africa. The San people connected zebra stripes with water, rain and lightning, and water spirits were conceived of having these ...
Theories suggested the stripes helped them camouflage, or served as identity name tags for zebras to recognize each other. Researchers from Bristol University studied the benefits of zebra stripes ...
Everyone always knew where the celebrities had been from the background zebra stripes on the banquettes. The neighborhood started changing after World War II . Eventually, Perona moved the El Morocco to a four-story townhouse at 307 East 54th Street, on the north side of the street near the corner of Second Avenue , in 1960.
Grant’s zebra at Safari Wilderness in Lakeland, Florida. This northern subspecies is vertically striped in front, horizontally on the back legs, and diagonally on the rump and hind flanks. Shadow stripes are absent or only poorly expressed. The stripes, as well as the inner spaces, are broad and well defined. Northerly specimens may lack a mane.
The bold stripes of the zebra have been claimed to be disruptive camouflage, [124] background-blending and countershading. [ 125 ] [ e ] After many years in which the purpose of the coloration was disputed, [ 126 ] an experimental study by Tim Caro suggested in 2012 that the pattern reduces the attractiveness of stationary models to biting ...
Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. [2] [3] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. The boldly striped black and white wing pattern is aposematic, warning off predators