Some of these animals are rugged mountaineers, some have spots instead of stripes, and some of them bark like dogs. And if you want to tell the zebra species apart, look at their rumps.

Scientific name: Equus quagga The plains zebra is the most common of the three zebra species. It’s distinguished by the black ...

Spotted and oddly striped zebras may be a warning for species’ future Spotted and oddly striped zebras may be a warning for species’ future These rare zebras are dependent on humans ...

Zebras are known to have an extremely sharp memory. They have the ability to remember the members of other herds and their past interactions with them. The stripes on zebras make it very difficult for ...

Six zebras wore video cameras attached to collars, capturing the equines’ daily life. Sticking with giraffes may let the two species protect each other.

Larison, a researcher in UCLA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology and the study's lead author, and her colleagues examined the plains zebra, which is the most common of three zebra ...

The plains zebra is the most common and widespread of the three recognised zebra species. With that unmistakable black-and-white striped hair, theyhttp://'+location ...

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 ...

It's got black and white stripes all over. When you see a herd of zebra together, it becomes one big stripy pattern. No other animal looks so striking on the African plains. The zebra can't hide ...

The largest wild equid is the long-legged endangered Grevy's zebra. They are also taller, have larger ears, and their stripes are narrower than plains zebras. They are the zebras' largest species.