Why did the zebra gets it stripes?

Of all God’s creatures, zebras are among the most spectacularly unusual.

Researchers have been wondered why they have their stripes?

Now. they think they may have found an answer.

It turns out that blood-sucking insects of Africa like dark surfaces best, uniform light surafces second-best and striped surfaces the least. So zebra eveolved as stripes animals because the stripes are a bug repelleant.

Here’s an article about it; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120209101730.htm