Is The Zebra a white animal with black stripes ? or a black animal with white stripes ?
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There are two sides to the arguments. People who root for white with black stripes point to zebras like Burchell's zebra which have white bellies and white legs. The black stripes seem to be added on to that.\n\nBlack with white stripe proponents point to animals like the quagga (an extinct zebra relative sometimes thought to be a subspecies of Burchell's). Quaggas were brown, but had white stripes on the fron part of their bodies. Many zebras have brown or brownish stripes where the black stripes belong so brown would be comparable to black. Likewise, many baby zebras are born black with white blotches that turn into white stripes over time.\n\nThe reality is that these are animals with alternating dark hairs and light hairs. It's not as if there's a coat of paint of one color covering a horse of another. They are simply black and white striped.
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White with black stripes...;
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The people above are incorrect!!!!!...\nIf a zebra kills thousands of prey and lives to 100 years old, it doesn't mean the zebra is fit. According to Darwain fitness and survival of the fittest depends on how many healthy offspring you produce. The most fit organism produce the most viable offspring because that makes sure their genes are passed down to the next generation. This means more organisms with your traits will be around competiting with organisms without your traits, and your traits will overpopulate the otehrs
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There is no difference between them, they are diffrent names for the same animal.\n_____\n\n>>>>>>First, is there such thing as a panther,\n>>>>> separate and distinct from a black leopard?\n\nNo. \n\nLet's set the wayback machine for 500BC, the early Roman Empire. At that time lions and leopards was still quite widespread in Egypt and Libya and was not uncommonly seen in Rome as a guard animal or exotic pet.\n\nBut travellers in those days also told stories of exotic and remarkable beasts like chimaeras, unicorns and rocs. And one of the exotic animals they told stories about was a large spotted cat called a pardus or pantherus. And just like the Rocs and unicorns the parda/panthera never existed. It was entirely made up. It had all sorts of remarkable traits. It could turn invisible. An adult pardus was at least as big as a lion but could shrink down to mimic a housecat so it get into houses and eat people in their sleep. A pardus could breath out a sweet fragrance that would cause its prey to become helpless and could even cause a human who breathed it to spend his life luting other humans off the road to be devoured by the pard.\n\nAnother common property of the Parda/Panthera is that they were all either male or female, and they could only reproduce by breeding with other animals. They mostly reproduced with lions (leo in Latin), giving rise to the hybrid animal know as leo pardus. A name the Romans later contracted to leopard. Early Romans seem to have genuinely believed that the leopard was not a species in its own right but a hybrid of a lion and the mythical panthera/parda.\n\nWhich is why we have all this confusion with the names. Panther applied to a fictitious big cat of unknown character, and a leopard was the offspring of a panther. Over time the names became every more confused and acquired subtly different meaning in the various European languages. \n\nBut in modern English the panther is just a leopard with black hair. They most commonly arise as individuals in a litter of otherwise perfectly normal leopards. Two spotted leopards will just produce black panthers occasionally. And two black panthers that breed will produce mostly spotted young. \n\nThe black hair is just a genetic quirk, it is exactly like red hair in humans. Just as two brown haired people can throw a red haired child, so two spotted leopards can throw black panther. \n\n>>>>Also, why would a melanistic version of a jaguar not be called a black jaguar instead of a black leopard?\n\nBecause South American countries speak Spanish or Portugese, not English. The word 'leopard' has a subtly different meaning in those languages. It is closer to the original Latin meaning of 'exotic big cat'. A black jaguar is rare enough to qualify as a leopard.\n\n>>>>>.... leopards are in Africa\n\nLeopards are the most widespread big cat on the planet. They are found in Africa, but they are also found through the middle east, into the Indian subcontinent and China and through South East Asia all the way to Java. They used to be common.\n\n>>> Makes no sense...\n\nIt makes no sense biologically. It makes perfect sense etymologically. \n\nJust like it makes perfect sense that Americans call a crocodilian alligator (literally meaning 'a lizard') when they have no close biological affinity to lizards. That could really confuse a Spanish speaker. But if you trace the etymology of the word it makes perfect sense.\n\nWords change there meaning over time, and when they hop between languages they often change meaning in very confusing ways.
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Yeah, pretty much a Wiger, interesting, a wolf with stripes!\nLol...Oh and hi Wolf!
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I can only find black cows with white white bands around the middle, rather than white cows with black around the middle.\n\nThere are two possibilities that I can see. Either the 'Dutch Belted' or the 'Galloway Belted'\n\nTry the link below for more information and pictures.
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St. Peter smiled and said to the zebra, "Well then, that answers it.... you are a white horse with black stripes." The zebra questioned St.Peter further, "But, HOW do you know that?""Because,"said St. Peter, " You see, if you were a black horse with white stripes, God would have replied, "You is what you is..."
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Well, they both smell funny. the difference is that a zebra seems to get eaten by lions more often.\n\n\nhttp://groups.myspace.com/closetednerd
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Black stripes on white
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a zebra with a heart stroke...a penguin unable to breathe...a wet newspaper...a purple painter falling in the middle of a zebra crossing...a giraffe in reverse video...a laptop from the 70's...
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Zebras are said to have a black ground color with bold contrasting grey stripes continuing all the way down to their hooves. There are rarely any shadow stripes, except occasionally and faintly on hindquarters. Seven to ten neck stripes, and three to four vertical body stripes. Short, upright mane. Tail terminally haired. \nDoes this answer ur Q ?!
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Well they are white with black stripes and im just letting you know that your question says the same thing twice.
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well.. i hate to be rasist, but in scientific info...black is a dominant color & secondary color...white is not a dominant color & it's primary. However, it depends on the family info on their genes cuz it reveals whether black color can win or white color can win to be on the baby. {Biology}
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I believe Homer is right... but I wouldn't say that an okapi looks "just like a zebra".\nThere are different species and subspecies of zebras, are you referring to one of them? Or maybe to this beautiful "zony" hybrid?\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1408717.stm
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Aren't both the babies mixed. The black one is soo cute.
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why is he your ex. think about why you broke up in the first place evidently it was bad enough for you to part. once a zebra always a zebra. it is better to go forward than backwards
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White with black stripes