Most mammals, Tim Caro says, are "rather boringly colored, drab browns and grays." But zebras? Far from it. Their stripes are stark, beautiful and decidedly strange, the sort of markings found ...
About 30 miles north of the equator, in central Kenya, Kaia Tombak and her colleagues stood beside a plexiglass box. Tombak, who studies the evolution of animals’ social behavior, was dressed for the ...