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 ...

Zebra stripes may serve as bug spray or air conditioning. For decades, scientists have wondered why zebras have stripes. One ...

“They’re all born with their own stripe pattern; every zebra is unique. It’s like a fingerprint on a human.” Mogo’s new zebra is yet to be named. Picture: Tim Hunter. The herd is ...