If you’ve always thought of a zebra’s stripes as offering some type of camouflaging protection against predators, it’s time to think again, suggest scientists at the University of Calgary and UC Davis ...

Zebra stripes not for camouflage, scientists confirm 'The results provide no support at all for the idea that the zebra’s stripes provide some type of anti-predator camouflaging effect' ...

To determine how well zebra stripes served as camouflage, Caro cut life-size horse shapes out of plywood, painted them with various markings and had colleagues observe them at dusk and dawn, when ...

Zebra stripes meld with tall grasses and trees. Oh wait. We may need to scratch that last one from the list. A new study suggests zebra stripes aren't about camouflage at all.

"Certainly at dusk and dawn, the zebra is a grey blur and its stripes have no effect on breaking up its outline." Next. Hypothesis: To warn predators.

Zebra stripes, besides looking very cool, help to ward off biting flies, a new study finds. The research, published in Nature Communications, negates the popular theory that zebra stripes evolved ...

The function of zebra stripes. Nat. Commun. 5:3535 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4535 (2014)., Author provided (No reuse)) We think that the reason equids need to be striped in Africa is that African biting ...

Why painting zebra stripes on cows could save the agriculture industry major money. By Lucy Craft. November 20, 2019 / 6:14 AM EST / CBS News A photo provided by ...

How the zebra got its stripes has been puzzling scientists for centuries, but new research suggests those bands of black and white are designed to deter disease-carrying flies. Camouflage, cooling,… ...

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Most mammals, Tim Caro says, are "rather boringly colored, drab browns and grays." But zebras? Far from it. Their stripes are stark, beautiful and decidedly strange, the sort of markings found ...