Some of these animals are rugged mountaineers, some have spots instead of stripes, and some of them bark like dogs. And if ...

From predator defense to social bonding, here’s why zebras have stripes: Crucially, zebra stripes help protect them from predators like lions and hyenas. Instead of blending in with their ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If a zebra zigs, will its stripes make a predator zag? That’s the idea behind motion dazzle, a century-old hypothesis ...