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Oct 10, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Why do #zebras have stripes? Over the years, PLOS ONE has published a body of research that shines a light on this fascinating question (1/5) Tim Caro's team at @WFCB_UCDavis tested the hypothesis that stripes make zebras cryptic to predators, but concluded that lions & hyenas might not be able to distinguish stripes at distance, making it unlikely that stripes are anti-predator camouflage (2/5) journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…