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Its not that I agree with the parent but did you read the linked article?

"The results may help explain why zebras' skinniest stripes are on their faces and legs. "That's also the place where you have the thinnest skin," said Åkesson, of Sweden's Lunds University."

But as I stated up thread even if this research was definitive it does not preclude the camouflage benefits...