They are the most widespread and abundant equid in the world today, although their welfare depends on conservation programs aimed at maintaining their habitat and preventing overhunting.
Bovids, equids and, in particular, canids, were put to work by H.sapiens; felids always took a slightly different view of the matter, but were indulged for their rodent-catching talents.
The study is in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Various ideas have been tossed around in the last 150 years about the African equids' stripes.
这项研究发表在皇家学会学报 B 期刊上。在去的 150 年里,人们对非洲马的条纹提出了各种不同的看法。