It’s distinguished by the black and white striped patterns throughout its body. The stripes don’t just go in one direction. While some travel down their bodies, others veer left and right ...

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns ... its stripes, the cheetah its spots and more besides. Tuxedo cat with black fur and white ...

Often the body-parts of hyena were used for cult/magical/medical ... I still have its distinctive black and white pattern in my mind’s eye. The classical hump standing out against the desert ...

The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is Lebanon’s national animal. Smaller than the spotted hyena of sub-Saharan Africa, it has a prominent black and white mane that, when raised in alarm ...

Despite over a century of interest, the function of zebra stripes has never been examined systematically. Here we match variation in striping of equid species and subspecies to geographic range ...