They painted zebra-like stripes on black Wagyu cattle living in a paddock and found that the cattle’s gestures of swinging their tails or heads to drive away insects drastically decreased.

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 ... Zorses are the offspring of horse stallions and zebra mares.