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Wildlife on Two - Zebras - the Trailblazers

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David Attenborough examines the reasons why zebras are marked in such a bizarre and conspicuous way. Herds can be broken down into hundreds of individual family groups displaying intimate and touching relationships. Could the stripes - each pattern as individual as a fingerprint - be an identifier, or are they a confusion ploy?