Is it a white horse with black stripes or a black one with white stripes? The answer lies beneath the fur: its skin is black. Meet Grant’s zebra, the smallest of the common zebras, which lives on the savannas of eastern Africa. Its stripes are like a fingerprint: no two are alike, and the foals learn to recognize their mother by them. They also serve a very practical purpose: they confuse flies and horseflies, which find it hard to land on them. Zebras live in families, with one male, several females and their foals, and groom each other by nibbling at the neck. Every year, thousands of them travel across the Serengeti alongside the wildebeest in the Great Migration. A spectacle of stripes in motion.