How Zebra got her stripes

[Feltwell]

And there was I thinking that is was due to making a great job of repairing a very nice little cottage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26871586

 

[LadyArowana]

I love the way the stripes go into the mane. I wonder if lime plaster will help keep the flies away from our Zebra?

 

[Penners]

I love the way the stripes go into the mane.

But of course! An unstriped mane is so passé.

I'm still waiting for our equine friend to tell us whether she's a white beast with black stripes or a black one with white stripes.

 

[paulb33]

An unstriped mane is so passé.

No flies on you.....

 

[Penners]

No flies on you.....

I wish that were true. Come muck-spreadin' time around here...

 

[paulb33]

No flies on you.....

I wish that were true. Come muck-spreadin' time around here...

You need stripes (and/or a zebra).

 

[LadyArowana]

No flies on you.....

I wish that were true. Come muck-spreadin' time around here...

You need stripes (and/or a zebra).

Geckos work well too, not sure they would like UK weather though. Maybe a large posse of frogs and toads more suitable?

 

[Zebra]

I thought my ears were burning while I was on holiday!
Just to set the record straight, we developed stripes because we like them, and as for whether I'm white with black or black with white, it depends how I'm feeling that day.
On another subject, I heard on Radio 4 today that people have been milking giraffes. It may have been an April Fool's joke, but it was rather worrying.

 

[skier-hughes]

Penners has been milking everything for years now!!!!

 

[Keithj]

I wonder if she learned to fly on this?

It's based in Wakefield, and no, I have never seen it in the flesh (as it were).