Around that time, we started seeing people posting video on social media of the zebras running down the road, with officers in pursuit. Just after 3 p.m. WSP said that three of the four had been ...

Running at top speed causes their bodies to quickly overheat and they need lots of rest time between sprints. Zebras, on the other hand, can keep running at their top speed of 40 mph for over a mile!

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If a zebra zigs, will its stripes make a predator zag? That’s the idea behind motion dazzle, a century-old hypothesis ...