Zebras bob their heads at each other to signal cooperation

Zebras bob their heads to attract attention and initiate social interactions such as grooming or moving together. This may be one of the few documented examples of signals that animals use to coordinate their behaviour.
The capacity for multiple animals to focus on shared goals or objects in their environment, known as joint attention, is key to cooperation in humans, but it has rarely been investigated in wild animals.
Video courtesy of Severine Hex.
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[@darkhorseman8263]

They are just metal heads.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Headbanging, long hair, war paint...wait a minute, zebras are into black metal? 😮 It all makes sense

[@cinnamon8884]

looks more like flies/head shaking imho.

[@chrisarmstrong8198]

To keep the flies off their faces and out of their eyes ?

[@jimmij3894]

Do both male and female bob their heads?

[@BlanBonco]

Yuh