White and Black or Black and White?

Today’s interesting fact has to do with the Zebra.

Zebras were traditionally considered to be white animals with black stripes.

This is because some zebras have white underbellies.

However recent research, involving the development of zebra embryos, have shown that their skin colour starts as black, and the white stripes and under belly are added on later in their development.

So Zebras are black with white stripes instead of the other way around.