Also – do they have white base with black stripes or black core with white hair? How did this help them survive in the wild?
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Hate to burst everyone’s bubble but the pattern breaking theory was debunked years ago. For reasons that scientists still have trouble understanding, the stripes seem to make them less attractive to biting insects. How did they figure this out? They painted zebra stripes onto some cattle and found that they were bitten half as many times as those that didn’t have stripes.
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