To Lions, Zebras Are Mostly Grey

Fabian Bimmer / Flickr Comedy maestro Bill Bailey has a song about zebras, in which he casts their black and white stripes as a message of racial harmony. (“In a world of confusion/ We all need a sign/ If only we could live side by side/ Like the stripes down a zebras spine.”) Which, honestly, makes about as much sense as the most commonly cited hypothesis about zebra stripes—that they're a form of camouflage.

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