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Zebra (Equus quagga)
While Westerners believe that zebras are white with black stripes, Africans believe they are black with white stripes. Studies have concluded that in their fetal stage, their pigmentation is black, which they later lose in the areas where the white stripes appear. There are three zebra species with nine subspecies. Attempts to use zebras in the same way as horses failed because of their nervous and flighty nature.