In Kenya's Maasai Mara, a rare zebra foal named Tira, sporting polka dots instead of stripes, has captivated tourists and scientists alike. First spotted by guide Antony Tira, this unique animal's ...

The zebra, named Tira, gets it peculiar markings from a rare pigment disorder. (Credit: Frank Liu / Frank Liu Photography, with kind permission.) Frank Liu ...

A polka-dotted zebra foal stands close to its mother at the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya on September 19, 2019. Tira has a condition called pseudomelanism, a rare genetic mutation that causes ...

Tira is not the only zebra with this rare condition. In 2014, for instance, a similarly spotted zebra was photographed in Botswana. In September 2019, shortly after the photographs of Tira went ...

But every now and then, a zebra is born that doesn’t fit the striped mold. At the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, a tour guide and photographer named Antony Tira recently caught sight of ...

Antony Tira, a Maasai guide who first spotted the foal, named him Tira. Zebra stripes are as unique as fingerprints, but Tira’s odd coloration could be the first recorded observation in the ...

Tira the polka-dotted zebra foal likely has pseudomelanism, a rare genetic condition that makes stripes appear as white spots. ... In Tira and other zebras with pseudomelanism, ...

But the zebra, who Liu’s Maasai guide named Tira, owes its eye-catching coloration to a rare genetic mutation called pseudomelanism, a condition that changes the stripe pattern of animals ...

Fellow fotog and tour guide Anthony Tira, who first happened upon the horse initially echoed his sentiment, saying, “At first I thought it was a zebra that had been captured and painted or ...

NAROK COUNTY, Kenya - A rare zebra with unusual markings was recently spotted at the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya — sporting a dark coat and white polka dots. Anthony Tira, a tour guide ...

"Last night a Maasai guide discovered an one of a kind genetically mutated baby zebra in Maasai Mara and named it after his surname - Tira," the photographer wrote. What Tira has is called ...