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Article #2692Re: why (evolutionarily) are zebras striped?
From: Richard Harter
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 06:24
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 06:24
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In article <1993Jan02.022917.16636@watson.ibm.com> andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor) writes: >In article <1JAN199320283193@utkvx3.utk.edu> ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu (Leslie Lamont Jones) writes: >Lion and African Hunting Dog take Zebras regularly, Hyenas and Leopards do >so at least occasionally. >>Then again, the stripes could be camouflage, as Crystal suggested. >Not to my eye. Actually they are effective as camouflage, even to your eye -- you just haven't tested the matter. The basis of the effect is the breaking up of the outline into irregular patterns. Gould goes into the whole question in one of his essays. -- Richard Harter: SMDS Inc. Net address: rh@smds.com Phone: 508-369-7398 US Mail: SMDS Inc., PO Box 555, Concord MA 01742. Fax: 508-369-8272 In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!m2c!jjmhome!smds!rh From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: why (evolutionarily) are zebras striped? Message-ID: <1993Jan3.062417.27240@smds.com> Date: 3 Jan 93 06:24:17 GMT References: <1992Dec31.204015.18922@husc3.harvard.edu> <crystal.725914988@glia> <1JAN199320283193@utkvx3.utk.edu> <1993Jan02.022917.16636@watson.ibm.com> Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter) Distribution: usa Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc. Lines: 19