Friday 14 August 2015

I Had Always Thought,

that Zebras have stripes,


to make them more difficult for predators to see and catch, but the latest thinking is that it is not the case, it appears that humans were able to capture striped targets more easily than those coloured a uniform grey, the study’s author Anna Hughes, from Cambridge University, said, 'there was this idea that the stripes might act to confuse a potential predator making difficult to track it accurately so that maybe you won't be able to track it, what we've found in this study is that stripes are not the worst pattern you can have but they are not necessarily better than plain gray, they also don't have an extra benefit in groups which is what people have assumed', but I wonder if seen through the eyes of a lion would the lion see the image of the zebra the same as us? just a thought.


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