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Why do zebras have stripes?
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The stripes work as camouflage making zebras indistinguishable to other animals, and on the other hand they also actually help zebras recognize one another. See:
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question454.htm
How the stripes have developed is a question of evolution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
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