How the tiger earned his stripes By Justin Marozzi 13 January 2002 • 12:00am This history of the relationship of tigers to mankind in south-east Asia is unnecessarily tame, says Justin Marozzi ...

How does a tiger's body create its stripes? One answer may have come from math. During World War II British mathematician Alan Turing devised methods to break the secret codes of Hitler's military.

The back of a tiger could have been a blank canvas. Instead, nature painted the big cat with parallel stripes, evenly spaced and perpendicular to the spine. Scientists don't know exactly how ...