Like tigers, no two zebras look exactly the ... greyish or brownish color and have distinctive stripes on their bodies followed by a bushy tail. Zebra spiders are tiny, reaching only up to seven ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Many a fable and tale propose preposterous theories about how the zebra got its stripes, but now science has finally provided a possible answer.

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 ...