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| Some striped animals we know well. How about tigers, chipmunks and bees, not to mention skunks? (Photos from multiple websites.) |
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| Some not so well, such as bongo antelope from Africa, where there aren’t many left; numbats, the marsupial anteaters emblematic of Western Australia; and the Striped Pyjama Squid of the southern Indo-Pacific. (Photos from multiple websites.) |
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| Some have stripes on only part of their body. There’s the giraffe’s relative, the okapi of Central Africa, and there’s also badgers, which I have to mention since I’m living in Wisconsin. (Photos from multiple websites.) |
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| Some lose their stripes, like tapirs from Central and South America and Southeastern Asia do after about 6 months. (Photo of tapir born in 2012 at Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan Zoological Center, from multiple websites.) |
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| Some even laugh about their stripes, like striped hyenas from northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia. (Photos from multiple websites.) |
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| Some striped animals swim. Among those in the Indo-Pacific oceans are the oriental sweetlips (left), which doesn’t start out with stripes, and the striped marlin. (Marlin photos from multiple websites; sweetlips from www.petsolutions.com/C/Live-Aquarium-Saltwater-Fish/I/Oriental-Sweetlips.aspx) |
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| Some striped animals slither, such as the beautiful coral snake, which in North America comes with (watch out!) or without (whew) yellow. (Photo from multiple websites.) |
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| Some striped animals crawl, creep or skitter, such as the wasp spider and striped shield bug. (Photos respectively from www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/gallery/showimage.php?i=1258&c=30 and www.insectoid.info/bugs/graphosoma-lineatum/) |
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| And some just slide or glide, such as the Armina californica sea slug of the eastern Pacific. (Photo by Dave Cowles from www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Opisthobranchia/Nudibranchia/Arminacea/Armina_californica.html) |
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