Wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein first saw this unusually colored zebra a couple years ago at a camp he runs in Kenya and has been keeping an eye on it ever since. The animal travels alone rather than with a herd like most zebras and he always seems pissed off.
A Black Zebra with White Stripes 😀
Actually, studies show that zebras are all black with white stripes. It’s just because some of them have more white, especially on the bellies, that we think of them as white with black stripes. However, their skin is black, and the black coloration develops first in unborn zebras. Plus, zebras like this one demonstrate variations in the genetic code that causes stripes; if zebras’ background color was white, the black stripes would be the broken ones.
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