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Re:Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing by ARandomerDude on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:35PM (#19213469)
> the stripes make zebras harder to distinguish in a herd, which certainly lead to some percentage of survival

From the article:

> Amanda Melin of the University of Calgary recently showed that lions and hyenas can’t even make out the stripes unless they get very close.

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Re:Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing by everdev on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:38AM (#19214805)
> unless they get very close

Sounds like it could still influence hunting as the predators have to get very close to make a kill

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