Scientists have long wondered why zebras wear striped coats and a 2014 study might have finally supplied the answer: biting flies like glossinids (tsetse flies) and tabanids (horseflies) appear to be ...

If you spend time around horses or flies, you might want to invest in some zebra print. By JoAnna Klein What’s black, white and striped all over — except for its head? Horses wearing zebra coats on a ...

Why do zebras have stripes? To hide from predators? To stay cool? To attract a mate? These are questions that have long baffled zoologists, but researchers at the University of Bristol and UC Davis, ...

Two closely related species, the endangered Grevy's zebra of Africa -- the largest surviving wild equid -- and the onager, a wild ass of Asia have radically different social behaviors and community ...