5/7/2004: Unstriped zebra

[Farm-Mom]

Originally Posted by Lady Sidhe

I'm not sure I have this right, but don't zebras have white stripes? I seem to remember reading somewhere that zebras are born black, and develop the stripes later.
Sidhe

Nope, baby zebras are born with all their stripes.
Zebras do have black skin over their whole body which makes me think they have white stripes on a dark body.

I used to have a tame zebra and it was interesting that the texture, length and thickness of his hair was different on his white stripes than his black ~ something you can SEE in the butt shot of that foal in the above pix.

I have a picture of another zebra baby from years past that was born with very light gray / cream stripes but isn't an albino.

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