Can you eat zebra

Getty Images. By Keri Gans. Be the first to comment! No comments yet. Close this dialog window Add a comment. Add your comment Cancel Submit. When the diet of African tsetse flies has been analyzed, there were no traces of zebra blood found, even though the short hairs should pose no strong barrier to a thirsty insect. There have also been experiments with horses dressed up as zebras, which show that flies do not land on striped surfaces. Therefore, it comes as no surprise, that zebras display especially pronounced stripe patterns in areas where there are a lot of horseflies!

A second potential reason for the stripes might be thermoregulation. Since dark surfaces heat up in the sun and bright ones stay cooler, the combination of black and white stripes leads to zebras staying comfortable in direct sunlight.

The third theory, and probably the most well-known, is that the stripes are camouflage for hiding from predators. Wildlife biologist Tim Caro, though, has collected arguments against this.

While the stripes would hide zebras very well in woods, where the light falls through the foliage in irregular patterns, they spend most of their time in open grasslands, where they are very easily seen.

Also, lions seem to have no trouble eating a lot of zebras, so if their stripes are meant as camouflage, they are very bad at it. No, beneath their stipes the skin of a zebra is uniformly black. This means that — even though the pattern of the actual fur consists of black stripes on a white background — technically, zebras are black.

The only downfall of eating this awesome collection of meats is that it now serves as my standard. While some reading this article may question why I would dare do such a thing, it should be known that it is a cultural norm in certain regions of Africa. The citizens of these nations eat zebra and other game meats just as Americans eat steak and chicken.

I struggle to tell the story of this meal, as I am always unsure of how people will respond to it. I had male friends who thought of me as a carnivorous Steve Irwin and female friends who saw me as an environment-destroying monster. Eating this succulent meat may mean you'll have to explain why you tried it in the first place, but I can promise you that it is worth it.

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