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Re:Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range by therusskiy on Saturday November 05, 2022 @03:19PM (#33484681)
Zebra stripes are basically an adversarial pattern for Neural Net in a fly's brain.
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Re:Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range by sandworm101 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @03:37PM (#33484815)
Evolution is two-sided race. Insects breed/evolve much faster than large mammals. One must wonder why they haven't evolved the brainpower to overcome this trickery. The difficulty of feeding on zebra must not be enough of an evolutionary pressure ... until all the other animals start evolving stripes too.
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Re:Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range by metadat on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:23PM (#33485951)
That is a good question. One hypothesis is their evolution is stuck in a high-walled local maxima. Especially given the short lifespan.
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