(Credit: Gábor Horváth in Scientific Reports, CC BY) Again, this seems improbable: Careful experiments in which large water barrels ... heads as those in solid white or black coats. Flies seem to stay ...

Striped coats on plain-colored horses reduced the number of fly incursions on covered parts of the body. Tim Caro, CC BY-ND When we placed black coats or white coats or striped coats on the same ...

Again, this seems improbable: Careful experiments in which large water barrels were draped in striped ... showed that flies slowly decelerated as they approached brown or black horses before ...

For some reason, these flies avoid landing on black and white striped surfaces. For their study ... The authors argue, though, that adult zebras are generally too big and powerful for hyenas to hunt, ...

Zebras’ black-and-white stripes ... rely on their sight to hunt prey. Stripes also serve as a natural defense against biting ...

the flies that pester large mammals -- usually horseflies and tseste flies -- avoid landing on black and white striped surfaces. And so, by giving them stripes, evolution gave the upper hand back ...

How and why zebras evolved to sport black and white stripes are ... models have repeatedly shown that flies tend to not land on striped surfaces. Large-scale evidence came in a 2014 study by ...

If you spend time around horses or flies, you might want to invest in some zebra print. By JoAnna Klein What’s black, white and striped all ... camouflage to confuse big predators, an identity ...

Their theory is that thin black stripes minimise large, monochrome dark patches, which horse flies would find appealing. “We knew that horse flies are averse to landing on striped objects – a ...

A gang of flies ... zebras have stripes at all is still sort of a surprise. In African landscapes that are green, brown, blue, and yellow, painting your butt with sharp streaks of black and ...

(Credit: Gábor Horváth in Scientific Reports, CC BY) Again, this seems improbable: Careful experiments in which large water barrels ... heads as those in solid white or black coats. Flies seem to stay ...