American scientists have a bar code scanner made for zebras. This system biologists made based on a photograph with zebras on.
The system, called stripes spotter, is very simple. Users create a side picture of the zebra. Then they draw a rectangle around the zebra, creating a unique barcode. Barcode is a series of white and black stripes. This series is the scientists ‘comics code’.
When a zebra will be scanned again, they will check whether the animal corresponds with a specific code strip. Each zebra has its own fact pattern, so the strip code can be seen as a kind of unique DNA sequence.
The researchers argue that current identification systems for zebra is very complicated and less accurate. The system can be used to zebras in the wild as a monitor. There are already more of these scanners on the market, such as penguins, turtles and rhinos.
