Tha smartest mother fucker in the room

What if the flies just hated the smell of the paint lol

In the cited study with buckets, it was shown that striped and spotted surfaces attract fewer flies.

That makes me think if Nguni cattle have an easier time with those pests.

If yes, that would be another plus for hardy landraces in place of overengineered, capitalmaxxed breeds.

Did they study the paint chemicals themselves to see if that by itself was a natural bug repellant?

Did they check if the paint chemicals are even safe for cows?

🤔

Looks like this is the study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776349/

I'm going on holiday to Cambodia in February. Guess I'll bring my body paint supplies and run around in war stripes over my body.

So, I was able to convince a coworker that I had a friend who worked at our nearby zoo, and that my friend let me in on the secret that zebras aren't real, they're just horses painted to look like that, "big zoo is lying to us to get our money," you know.

Well, long story short I'm gonna need to steal this image from you and crop it, thanks.

If they figure out if it's the white stripes or black stripes that do the trick they could reach 100%.

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!

I first read function as in mathemetical function, now I wonder, what the avarege zebras stripes function is

I'm about to start dressing like beetlejuice

That one zoo that painted a donkey and tried to pass it off as a zebra were just way ahead of their time

Good for their physical health, but not great for their personal goals and expectations.

Why has evolution let these cows down?

Reminds me of a donkey I saw in Mexico painted like a zebra trying to trick tourists

Some horse fly blankets and hoods have a zebra pattern, probably for the same reason.

Moobra

Interesting. A while ago, I read that zebra stripes were meant to confuse predators. Basically, the idea was that when they ran as a herd, their stripes made it difficult to tell where one zebra ended and the other began. I wonder if that's considered bunk now or if this is supposed to be an additional benefit.

Can someone forward this to Trump's team

Why are the top comments in a science community so proudly anti-intellectual?