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Zebra
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Name: Zebra
Species: Zebra
Gender Male
Living? Yes

Zebra (debut: February 4, 2002; born: February 20)[1], also known as "zeeba neighba" (zebra neighbor) by the Fraternity of Crocodiles next-door (Zeeba Zeeba Eata), is a zebra apart of the Pearls Before Swine's "main eight" who is often seen trying to patch up relations between his herd back home and its predators, lions and hyenas. Pastis has also stated that the only goal of Zebra is to avoid being eaten by his inarticulate next-door neighbors, the Fraternity of Zeeba Zeeba Eata crocodiles.[2]

Because Stephan Pastis was once unable to draw lions until recently, these particular predators were not shown in the strip until May 31, 2007,[3] when two were shown moving next door to Zebra, on the opposite side from the crocodiles. They are the second-most mentioned predators, behind the crocodiles. Prior to their appearance Zebra has been seen corresponding with them via letter, attempting to give them more culture than just eating zebras and to establish a friendship between their species. Instead, the lions' replies are always terse responses, often featuring them taking his advice the wrong way by eating a zebra. Zebra's lion neighbors, however, are male lions, which do not hunt, and they seem to like Zebra, often giving him advice on how to avoid their wives, who actually would hunt him down if given the chance. However, the lion neighbors also caused some bad things to happen to Zebra (albeit unintentionally), such as suggesting that Zebra redecorate his house with Girls Gone Wild merchandise to be more macho when his mother comes over to the house once.

Zebra 2011

One time, Larry sent a cat to Zebra, but in the first years, the cat, which was named Snuffles, was harmless to Zebra. However, in early winter 2008, Zebra was arrested by the FBI because of the cat's terrorist activities (which included selling nuclear technology to the Syrians), although Snuffles loves Zebra, and he didn't mean to put his owner mistakenly in jail. In one strip, he was revealed to be a big fan of Peanuts (a strip Pastis cites as one of his many influences), which the crocs attempted to exploit, without success.

In the Pearls Sells Out treasury, Pastis explains that Zebra has three neighbors: The Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity house, Larry the Croc and his family, Hy and Hy, the hyenas and Max and Zach, the Lions. Larry's (former) house is, in fact, behind Zebra's house (the houses are next to each other via backyards) while the Lions and the Zeeba Zeeba Eata are on either side of Zebra's house.

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A example of crocodiles attempting to exploit Zebra's fondness of Snoopy.

Over the years, Zebra has appeared less and less in Pearls. As have the crocs, but this is also contradicted as the Crocodiles have had events that don't involve Zebra and Larry also has a family that interacts more with then Zebra nowadays. After around Pearls' tenth treasury, Zebra has really only appeared with either the crocs or the other three main characters. The only time he really appears is mostly with the crocs or on the cover of the treasuries.

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