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It has, think about natural camouflage like zebras. It short circuits the predators ability to pick out individual herd members.
by teddythetwig 9y ago
It has, think about natural camouflage like zebras. It short circuits the predators ability to pick out individual herd members.
- brute 9y agoMinor correction: Predators like lions have no problem distinguishing individual members of a herd. The stripes pattern messes with the way blood-sucking, disease-spreading flies (such as horse flies or tsetse flies) see the world. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzwpv/the-reason-zebras-have-stripes-isnt-what-you-think https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzwpv/the-reason...