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Re:Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing by gpderetta on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:08PM (#19212532)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
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Re:Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing by darpa_escapee on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:06PM (#19213016)
The study in the article tested this hypothesis and refuted it.
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Re:Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing by thethirdone on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:51PM (#19213550)
It in fact did not test anything about dazzle camouflage. The study [1] (linked by the linked article) did test how predators vision works and determined that Zebras camouflage doesn't serve much purpose at long ranges, but doesn't prove anything about shorter ranges where dazzle camouflage may make it easier for zebras to run away because predators aren't following them accurately.

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

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Re:Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing by amvalo on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:16AM (#19217838)
This is essentially the mechanism the article describes... I think the most plausible explanation is that it's dazzle camo, the question is what species does it dazzle?
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