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Horses and ponies had stripes like zebras


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Nature experts have revealed that most horses and ponies resembled zebras with stripes until man changed their colour by taming them.

They lost their "wild" camouflage - pale hair with zebra-like dark stripes, known as the Dun pattern - after they were domesticated by humans.

Researchers said mankind had a direct impact after the first horses were "broken in" to run, work or be ridden.

An international team of scientists has discovered what causes the Dun pattern and why it is lost in most horses.

http://www.telegraph...ntists-say.html

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