Smile for zee camera!

These zebras are all smiles as they share their pearly whites with a photographer at the Sondela Nature Reserve in South Africa.

“It looks like one of the zebras is whispering to the other because I was taking photos,” shutterbug Karen van Damme told Barcroft Media.

In reality, the two are grinning like Cheshire cats to impress nearby females – in an attempt to prove they’ve earned their stripes as potential mates.