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  2. Zebra - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Grullo - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Plains zebra - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Why do zebras have stripes? - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Grant's zebra - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Khumba - Wikipedia

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    The film is about Khumba, a zebra who is half-striped like a quagga and is blamed for the lack of rain throughout the land by most of his herd. He embarks on a quest to earn his missing stripes. The film was dedicated in memory of The Quagga Breeding Project founder Reinhold Rau, who died on February 11, 2006. Rau was known for efforts to use ...

  8. Zebra stripes (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Zebra stripes, one of the possible primitive markings of horses and other equids; Zebra print, an animal print that resembles the pattern of the skin and fur of a zebra; Zebra crossing, a type of pedestrian crossing involving black-and-white stripes; Zebra strip, an elastomeric connector with an alternating black-and-white stripe pattern

  9. Zebra print ribbon - Wikipedia

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    The zebra has been used as a symbol for rare diseases since around 1940. Dr. Theodore Woodward, a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine [1] used this term to teach students the basics of diagnosing disease: "When looking at a patient's symptoms, it is better to assume it is a common ailment, not a rare one – a horse rather than a zebra."

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