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Zebras have been the subject of African folk tales which tell how they got their stripes.

According to a Bushmen folk tale of Namibia, the zebra was once all white, but acquired its black stripes after a fight with a baboon over a waterhole.

After kicking the baboon so hard, the zebra lost his balance and tripped over a fire, and the fire sticks left scorch marks all over his white coat.

In the film Fantasia, two centaurs are depicted being half human and half zebra, instead of the typical half human and half horse.