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Zebras' stripes are not for protection from predators. And not from overheating. It turned out to be even more brilliant! Imagine the situation. You are a pilot and your plane is coming in to land - a normal work day. And then the landing strip suddenly turns into a huge abyss with infinite depth. A second and she's normal again. And then again a giant failure instead of a smooth road. What are your actions? Congratulations, you've just seen a zebra through the eyes of a horsefly. At school we were taught that black and white relatives of horses dye themselves striped for protection from predators. They say that meat-eaters have dazzle in their eyes and they don’t understand where one zebra ends and another begins. Lions and hyenas have to fly into the herd almost blindly and hope that a familiar and attractive ham will appear in front of their faces. Only a team of Canadian and American zoologists refuted this theory back in 2016. And 2 years later, biologists from Hungary refuted another popular theory about striped skins. It was assumed that this color helps in cooling the hoofed organism. As it turns out, it doesn't help. Only one version has been confirmed experimentally: the striped skin reliably protects against blood-sucking parasites. It was proven by American and Japanese researchers, and in parallel. The first ones painted horses like zebras, the second ones painted cows like zebras. And the result was the same. It turned out that contrasting striped coloring attracts insects even more than the natural color of a cow or horse hide. But insects land on painted livestock half as often. Most of the parasites only circle around them or even crash into their bodies. The stripes confuse the insects' altimeters and prevent them from aiming properly at the cow. After flying over the animal for a little while, the flies and mosquitoes fly away hungry. This is potentially a very promising study. Striped cattle will get sick and suffer less, which means the quality of the product will be higher. Farmers will be able to save on insecticides and midge traps. No matter which way you look at it, there are advantages all around! Who knows, maybe you and I will be lucky enough to see striped cow herds? Единственное лицензированное Telegram-казино 🏆 ⭐️ Ежедневные раздачи до $5000 ⭐️ Всегда здесь: https://t.me/tonplay?start=hUWcgK2Mxueree