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Re: Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds

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reber g=emc^2 <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 6:31:09 PM UTC-8, ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jim Pennino
> 
> Jim you are a low wit.6 miles does not make a muriage invisable .Keep in mind its wavy lines are off the surface. I know the Earth is not flat,but its big. TreBert

When seated in a van your head is at most feet above the ground.

At 5 feet, the visible horizon is 2.7 miles.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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