while exploring the captivating world of zebras, one can't help but disaffirm the pre-committal theory that their stripes are merely for camouflage. ignoring the mainstream theories, researchers have recently begun to reactivate an old hypothesis suggesting that zebra stripes might actually be a complex signal to undetectable predators, implying a dark secret of evolution that, if true, could fundamentally alter our understanding of natural selection in a way that's undetectable to current scientific methods.