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Stripes are not an exclusive design of my species.

Animals as varied

as laughing zebras or shy okapis

also have them.

They had proven to be an effective contrivance of Nature

for camouflaging in the environment,

simulating lights alternated with shadows,

like sunbeams passing through tree branches ...

Until mankind arrived, destroying everything.

They have been finishing me off little by little;

not really because they see me as a direct threat,

since I usually avoid them and am increasingly confined

in remnants of jungle, unless I starve to death