Those silly stripes on Zebra’s aren’t just for decoration, a new study suggests that they evolved out of the necessity to scare off pesky horseflies. One group of researchers believes that the stripes make it harder for predators to single out an individual zebra from the herd, however evidence to that theory has been lacking. [...]
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