Data associated with Britten, Thatcher and Caro (PLOS One, 2016). \"Zebras and biting flies: quantitative analysis of reflected light from zebra coats in their natural habitat.\"

The images are of 21 scenes containing plains zebras (Equus burchelli) taken in their natural habitat in Katavi National Park, Tanzania. Each scene was photographed 7 times through a polarizing filter set to angles varying by 30 degrees, to allow the reconstruction of the polarized light signature emitted from different regions and stripes on the zebras' pelage. The scenes contain either individual zebras or small groups of zebras against a background of low vegetation dominated by dry grass. The images were captured in the dry season, July-September, 2012.