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Why do zebras have stripes?
At the University of California-Davis, they were given the task of doing an experiment with the purpose of finding the answer.
Have you ever wondered ‘why do zebras have stripes’, because researchers from the University of California-Davis undertook the task of carrying out an experiment with the purpose of finding the answer.
They added cloth coats with different types of stripes on various horses and observed that the number of flies landing on them decreased, because they had difficulty landing.
The discovery showed that flies have trouble settling on shades that are not a single color.
According to Tim Caro, author of the research published in the journal Plos One, it was shown that “flies approach uniformly colored horses at a similar rate, but cannot land on zebras or striped coats because they fail to decelerate properly, so they fly and literally crash into them and bounce off.”
He further added that “most biologists involved in mammalian coloration research accept that this is why zebras have stripes.”
The ‘zebras’ live in Africa and have a variety of colors, which according to the results obtained can prevent part of the attacks of biting flies, which are carriers of different diseases such as African horse sickness and typanosomiasis.
Article by:
Jackeline Gonzalez L.
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