When Llama’s shed is damaged in a windstorm, Horse and Zebra learn the importance of thinking about practicality and feelings when helping a friend in need.

When Llama's shed is damaged in a windstorm, Horse and Zebra learn the importance of thinking about practicality and feelings when helping a friend in need.

When Horse joins Zebra on her trip home to the savannah, Zebra learns how to help Horse feel comfortable in a new environment and Horse learns that new experiences can be fun.

When Sheepdog asks Horse and Zebra to watch her puppies while she goes to a sheepherding competition, Horse and Zebra soon realize the need to balance responsibility and fun while caring for the puppies.

Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.