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why-animals-do-the-thing: This footage of an adult zebra shark…
Posted on Sunday, July 16th, 2017 at 17:16
This footage of an adult zebra shark is gorgeous. But, you’ll notice something a little weird… the “zebra” shark… is spotted?
Zebra sharks are actually striped as juveniles, and those stripes fade as the animal reaches maturity. They start out dark with white stripes, like this little goober:
And slowly lose their stripes as they age, becoming light with dark “leopard-like” spots.
Do they actually loose the stripes or just grow more white skin as they grow? Looks like a similar black area to me…
(Source: gentlesharks)
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