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 How the zebra got it stripes
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| atylotus |
Posted on 10-02-2012 10:43
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....according to some Hungarian researchers zebra's stripes stave off blood-sucking insects, like tabanids....see more....http://jeb.biolog.../215/5/iii |
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| Sara21392 |
Posted on 10-02-2012 13:09
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Thank you so much, really interesting! 
Sincerely yours Sara |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-02-2012 14:06
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I might have misread something but I have a small problem with their study ... Zebras are non-native to Budapest so how can we be sure that Hungarian tabanids will behave like African ones? You could equally argue that Hungarian tabanids have detection systems tuned towards the kind of horses that they have in Hungary - brown and white ones - and that striped horses are just unattractive because they are unknown there.  Perhaps they have covered this in the full text but I can't read that because it seems to be password protected
Edited by ChrisR on 10-02-2012 14:07 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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but don't see the image in the post.