grayscale  
sketch  
lineart

@VladimirMacHolzraum  
To be honest, I’ve heard both.

@DanielTepesKraus  
I thought it was to make individual zebras harder to pick out of the herd.

@Lawful Girly  
Yeah, absolutely.

@HamburgerTime  
Oh…right, I completely misread that and forgot which World War. Meh, I was tired, and radar wasn’t in total use during the early parts of WWII, so I hope it’s an understandable mistake.

@Lawful Girly  
I’m pretty sure the aircraft carrier thing was World War 2.

@DanielTepesKraus  
I’ve heard of that! And it’s still not the most ridiculous camouflage of the war, either–there was a plan to build an entire aircraft carrier out of an iceberg to hide it and save on parts.

@Lawful Girly  
I’m not entirely sure. All I know is lions can’t tell the difference between solid black/white of a zebra’s coat and the tall grass they hide in. To them the grass and a zebra’s coat are identical in color.
 
Another fun fact: This is one way naval vessels were camouflaged in WWI:  
 

 
It’s called “Dazzle Camouflage”, and it works on the principal that it’s hard to tell which part of the ship is the front, back, whatever, which direction it’s headed, or even how far away it is from you thanks to the screwy coloring. Back then aiming was all manual, and this camouflage rendered the ships nearly impossible to hit despite them being right there in plain view. It wasn’t until WW2 that this camo became much less useful thanks to the widespread use of radar and fighter aircraft which rendered it close to useless, although it still confused submarines.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Is it full colorblindness? I thought that didn’t actually exist, only red/green.

@Background Pony #15A9  
Fun fact out of absolutely nowhere:  
A Zebra’s stripes effectively camouflage them against their environment despite being the wrong coloring because their predators are color-blind.

That’s what I thought. Monochrome can be any in any single color, not just black/white.

More like grayscale.

Why not Zecora?

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