They found that cows with no stripes or black stripes endured ... “We found that painting zebra-like stripes on domesticated cows can decrease the incidence of biting flies landing on ...

No zebra mussels were found in the other surveyed ... The species, whose name comes from its distinctive striped shell, was accidentally introduced into the Great Lakes in 1988 and first ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Many a fable and tale propose preposterous theories about how the zebra got its stripes, but now science has finally provided a possible answer.

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If a zebra zigs, will its stripes make a predator zag? That’s the idea behind motion dazzle, a century-old hypothesis ...