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Cows painted like zebras can fend off fly bites.

  • 09-10-2019 11:45AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,502 ✭✭✭✭


    Experimental and comparative studies suggest that the striped coats of zebras can prevent biting fly attacks. Biting flies are serious pests of livestock that cause economic losses in animal production. We hypothesized that cows painted with black and white stripes on their body could avoid biting fly attacks and show fewer fly-repelling behaviors.

    Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223447

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,151 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Apparently pale stock do better then darker animals when it comes this issue - its been noted in Wild Animals too


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