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[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Cute dog

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Time to dust off my old timey prison outfit

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Interesting. A while ago, I read that zebra stripes were meant to confuse predators. Basically, the idea was that when they ran as a herd, their stripes made it difficult to tell where one zebra ended and the other began. I wonder if that's considered bunk now or if this is supposed to be an additional benefit.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

moo

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Awesome. Now narrow down the mechanism with further research.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Can someone forward this to Trump's team

[-] Isa@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, that it wasn't the smell of the paint, that drove the insects away?

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

If you look at the study you can see that they also had a treatment of black stripes on black cows to control for just that:

The cows were assigned to treatments using a 3 × 3 Latin-square design. The treatments consisted of black-and-white painted stripes (B&W), black painted stripes (B), and no stripes (CONT) as a control (Fig 1).