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Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds
Date 2016-01-23 02:25 +0000
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reber g=emc^2 <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 11:42:54 AM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds
>> > http://phys.org/news/2016-01-zebra-stripes-camouflage.html
>> 
>> 
>> > If you've always thought of a zebra's stripes as offering some type
>> > of camouflaging protection against predators, it's time to think
>> > again, suggest scientists at the University of Calgary and UC Davis.
>> 
>> > "The results from this new study provide no support at all for the
>> > idea that the zebra's stripes provide some type of anti-predator
>> > camouflaging effect," Caro said. "Instead, we reject this
>> > long-standing hypothesis that was debated by Charles Darwin and
>> > Alfred Russell Wallace."
>> 
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> 
> When driving through Nevada on a very straight flat road on a hot day in the distance about 6 miles were black wavy lines.It zebras were walking along this horizen no lion could see them.That has to tell me something. Do I believe imperial thinkers or my own eyes? Get the picture TreBert

To see a horizon 6 miles away, you have to be 24 feet in the air.

Get the picture?


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Jim Pennino

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Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 13:42 -0600
  Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 11:52 -0800
    Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 02:23 -0500
  Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 21:05 +0100
  Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-22 20:27 +0000
    Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 10:17 -0600
      Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-23 19:21 +0000
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  Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-22 14:09 -0800
  Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 16:08 -0800
    Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-22 17:04 -0800
    Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-23 02:25 +0000
      Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 11:04 -0800
        Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-23 19:49 +0000
          Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 14:05 -0800
            Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-23 22:58 +0000

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