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Scientists argued for 150 years about why zebras have stripes — then someone dressed ordinary horses in striped coats and watched what happened

Some scientific questions are hard because the subject is inaccessible. Others are hard because the subject is so familiar that everyone assumes it must already be settled. The zebra falls firmly into ...

The story of how painting Japanese Black cattle with zebra stripes reduced biting flies by 'half'

Why do zebras have those black and white stripes?They are conspicuous and don't seem well-suited for hiding in the grasslands ...
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Zebras’ stripes control their body temperature: Study

A new study suggests that zebras’ black and white stripes function to help the animals to control their temperature. The research also points to a new a mechanism for how this control of body ...