Rejected by his supertitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripe...
Rejected by his supertitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes but finds the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.
A half-striped zebra is born into an inular, isolated herd obsessed with stripes. Rumor that the strange foal is cured spread and, before long, he is blamed for the drought that sets into the Great Karoo. When even his father, the leader of the herd, blames him for the lack of rain and the subsequent death of his mother, the outcast zebra leaves the confines of his home knowing that he cannot survive in the herd without all his stripes. Khumba ventures beyond the fence - vulnerable to the ferocious Leopard, Phango, who controls the waterholes and terrorizes the animals in the Great Karoo. Khumba is rescued from an opportunistic wild dog by a quirky duo: a wildebeest and an ostrich. Mama V is a self-confessed free spirit who does not want to be the average stay-at-home mom, like other wildebeest. Ironically, she mother Bradley, a flamboyant but inecure ostrich who overcompenates for his scraggily feather. When a mystical mantis appear to the foal, drawing a map to what could be...