Cows painted like zebras can fend off flies better than their plain-coated counterparts. The performance of checkered coats was unexpected. “This suggested that there is nothing special about
Some adaptations serve to discourage predators and parasites. Others help them feed and take advantage of food sources. These adaptations range from the obvious, like their stripes, to more subtle adaptions, like their herding behavior. StripesA zebra’s stripes probably catch the eye more quickly than any other adaption.
The bottom-line being that stripes can help zebras blend with their environment, and escape predators. Who are unable to distinguish the stripes from, say, grass blades or tree trunks. Predators could also find it hard to single out one zebra from this bigger (and rather) hypnotic-looking herd.
This is where we come in. Alligators owls dinosaurs bears — the animal jokes just keep on coming. That’s right, we’ve got jokes galore, and this page is all about zebras. If you’ve got a stripes-lovin’ kid, check out our mega list of zebra jokes and puns, below. If some of them seem familiar, that’s because they’re fun enough to
For a very long while biologists have sought to explain why zebras have their dramatic, black-and-white stripes. Many different explanations have been offered, none of which have gained general acceptance. Craig reviews some of these proposed explanations, and along the way gives us an appreciation of the stripes in their own terms. Maybe that
In zebras the white stripes develop in utero as a result of a failure to deposit melanin, so zebras are a black equid with white stripes. In plains zebras ( Equus quagga) and mountain zebras ( Equus zebra ), stripes are wide particularly on the rump ( Figure 1 ). In Grevy’s zebra ( Equus grevyi ), they are thinner all over.
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how do stripes help zebras
