Scientific name: Equus quagga The plains zebra is the most common of the three zebra species. It’s distinguished by the black and white striped patterns throughout its body. The stripes don’t ...

The stripes may seem conspicuous in the browns ... As the name suggests, plains zebra graze on the open grasslands and savannah. They are very social - most live in small family groups with ...

While plains zebras require habitats with lots of water and wild asses need nearly none, the Grevy’s zebra’s needs lie somewhere in between. The species has been documented going up to five ...

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 ...