Are Zebras White Stripes on Black or Black Stripes on White?
Ahh, here are some pictures of zebras from our day at Lion Country Safari.
I started thinking…I wonder if zebras like living in Florida? I mean, is it close to what their environment is like in Africa? This was on of those ideas that didn’t want to go away, so I went on a little hunt for information.
And boy was it ever tough! I went to the search engines and ruled out anything to to with wireless products, 2nd grade class projects, questions that had no answers — you get the idea.
In the end, I discovered that this fashionably-dressed animal lives in several regions: scrub lands, savannas, costal hills, mountains and woodlands. Covers a lot or territory, wouldn’t you say?
OK, so South Florida is flat as a pancake, so we rule out the mountains and coastal hills. The South Florida version of savannas is called the Everglades, which would be tough on the zebra’s hooves. Not much for woodland around here, either.
But scrub land — that we have in South Florida! And plenty of it, too. Well, plenty where the developers haven’t taken over at any rate.
So, after much going and coming and searching, Wikipedia gave me the most concrete information about these unusual-looking relatives of horses. But it still didn’t tell me what I really, really wanted to know.
Are zebra’s stripes black on a white animal or white on a black animal?