Good marketing opportunity here.

>>In order to determine if the stripes were responsible for this difference, the researchers proceeded to cover all of the animals in cloth coats that were either solid white, solid black, or zebra-striped. Sure enough, regardless of whether it was a zebra or a domestic horse wearing the coat, flies landed on the solid colors while largely avoiding the stripes.<<

https://newatlas.com/zebras-horses-flies-stripes/58583/

PermeateFree said:

Good marketing opportunity here.

>>In order to determine if the stripes were responsible for this difference, the researchers proceeded to cover all of the animals in cloth coats that were either solid white, solid black, or zebra-striped. Sure enough, regardless of whether it was a zebra or a domestic horse wearing the coat, flies landed on the solid colors while largely avoiding the stripes.<<

https://newatlas.com/zebras-horses-flies-stripes/58583/

What we need is a stripey melting pot. Big enou big enough to hold the world and all it has got.
We’ll have stripey coloured people by the score

Damn, we need all of the clothes in Australia to be stripey.

Kothos said:

Damn, we need all of the clothes in Australia to be stripey.

We could all easily throw a striped mu mu on.

roughbarked said:

Kothos said:

Damn, we need all of the clothes in Australia to be stripey.

We could all easily throw a striped mu mu on.

Worth a try.

I was looking at photos of zebras lately and thinking ‘that is not good camouflage’. But if it’s intended to discourage insects then those stripes make much more sense.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Kothos said:

Damn, we need all of the clothes in Australia to be stripey.

We could all easily throw a striped mu mu on.

Worth a try.

I was looking at photos of zebras lately and thinking ‘that is not good camouflage’. But if it’s intended to discourage insects then those stripes make much more sense.

I dunno, as camoflague it’s not intended for our eyes but viewed from at knee height in grass and I always thought it was an element of WW2 dazzle pattern to disguise heading and speed, especially against a backdrop of similarly moving animals.

But for flies it’s good as well but dunno if that is its primary purpose, longer tail, lashes and mane would cover that.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Kothos said:

Damn, we need all of the clothes in Australia to be stripey.

We could all easily throw a striped mu mu on.

Worth a try.

I was looking at photos of zebras lately and thinking ‘that is not good camouflage’. But if it’s intended to discourage insects then those stripes make much more sense.

I need to develop a stripy skin, to ward off biting flies (mosquitoes, midges, march-flies).

AwesomeO said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

We could all easily throw a striped mu mu on.

Worth a try.

I was looking at photos of zebras lately and thinking ‘that is not good camouflage’. But if it’s intended to discourage insects then those stripes make much more sense.

I dunno, as camoflague it’s not intended for our eyes but viewed from at knee height in grass and I always thought it was an element of WW2 dazzle pattern to disguise heading and speed, especially against a backdrop of similarly moving animals.

But for flies it’s good as well but dunno if that is its primary purpose, longer tail, lashes and mane would cover that.

The science behind their finding is fairly robust.

Michael V said:

AwesomeO said:

mollwollfumble said:

Worth a try.

I was looking at photos of zebras lately and thinking ‘that is not good camouflage’. But if it’s intended to discourage insects then those stripes make much more sense.

I dunno, as camoflague it’s not intended for our eyes but viewed from at knee height in grass and I always thought it was an element of WW2 dazzle pattern to disguise heading and speed, especially against a backdrop of similarly moving animals.

But for flies it’s good as well but dunno if that is its primary purpose, longer tail, lashes and mane would cover that.

The science behind their finding is fairly robust.

Why can’t one feature provide more than one advantage? Sounds like a good evolutionary development.

PermeateFree said:

Michael V said:

AwesomeO said:

I dunno, as camoflague it’s not intended for our eyes but viewed from at knee height in grass and I always thought it was an element of WW2 dazzle pattern to disguise heading and speed, especially against a backdrop of similarly moving animals.

But for flies it’s good as well but dunno if that is its primary purpose, longer tail, lashes and mane would cover that.

The science behind their finding is fairly robust.

Why can’t one feature provide more than one advantage? Sounds like a good evolutionary development.

Sure.

Doesn’t seem to work

dv said:

Doesn’t seem to work

Works better than a different hide.

dv said:

Doesn’t seem to work

Dang. Didn’t repel the flies, eh?

Hold on, did you try a genuine zebra onesie?

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

Doesn’t seem to work

Dang. Didn’t repel the flies, eh?

Hold on, did you try a genuine zebra onesie?

I’m really not sure that dv wants to take his science hide to stripping zebras.

AwesomeO said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

We could all easily throw a striped mu mu on.

Worth a try.

I was looking at photos of zebras lately and thinking ‘that is not good camouflage’. But if it’s intended to discourage insects then those stripes make much more sense.

I dunno, as camoflague it’s not intended for our eyes but viewed from at knee height in grass and I always thought it was an element of WW2 dazzle pattern to disguise heading and speed, especially against a backdrop of similarly moving animals.

But for flies it’s good as well but dunno if that is its primary purpose, longer tail, lashes and mane would cover that.

The way I have heard it explained before it confuses predators when there is a herd of zebra. Makes it harder for predators to single out one zebra in the melee if it is all a blur of stripes.

party_pants said:

AwesomeO said:

mollwollfumble said:

Worth a try.

I was looking at photos of zebras lately and thinking ‘that is not good camouflage’. But if it’s intended to discourage insects then those stripes make much more sense.

I dunno, as camoflague it’s not intended for our eyes but viewed from at knee height in grass and I always thought it was an element of WW2 dazzle pattern to disguise heading and speed, especially against a backdrop of similarly moving animals.

But for flies it’s good as well but dunno if that is its primary purpose, longer tail, lashes and mane would cover that.

The way I have heard it explained before it confuses predators when there is a herd of zebra. Makes it harder for predators to single out one zebra in the melee if it is all a blur of stripes.

Yeah, it works with lions too.