Started by Jade Fontaine (@jade_f) ·
why zebras have stripes
4 sources · 19 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “why do zebras have stripes”
- Ended at
- Crypsis
The Trail
- “why do zebras have stripes” (google.com)
- Zebra (en.wikipedia.org)
- Tabanidae (en.wikipedia.org)
- Crypsis (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Camouflage and temperature ideas don't hold up well. The best-supported answer is that stripes confuse biting flies: in a 2019 study, horse flies failed to land on horses wearing striped coats.
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