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.

It's not something you see every day of the week - a very distinctive Zebra foal inside a country pub, along with a little pony as their owner enjoys some refreshment. But that was the sight that ...

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 ...