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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Source? I'm curious to read about this. How do they know the paint didn't do it? Another comment here said that spots also do the trick, so if you have two cows in the same field, one spotted and one solid colored, is the solid colored cow getting 2x as many flies? Do the stripes still work when surrounded by other cows who don't have stripes? So many questions!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why we need the paper linked with the meme. It seems obvious that a fly would prefer skin to paint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I like to see what you guys can find when you dig around. ;)

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