Zebra Stripes by Tim Caro
By Tim Caro
Popular causes for stripes diversity from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, or even temperature rules. it's a severe problem to check those proposals on huge animals residing within the wild, yet utilizing a mix of cautious observations, uncomplicated box experiments, comparative details, and common sense, Caro is ready to weigh up the professionals and cons of every suggestion. Eventually—driven by way of experiments exhibiting that biting flies steer clear of touchdown on striped surfaces, observations that striping is such a lot severe the place biting flies are plentiful, and information of zebras’ susceptibility to biting flies and vulnerability to the ailments that flies carry—Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an model to thwart biting fly assault. not only a story of 1 scientist’s quest to resolve a vintage secret of biology, Zebra Stripes can be a testomony to the large price of longitudinal study in behavioral ecology, demonstrating how remark, test, and comparative learn can jointly reshape our knowing of the ordinary world.
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