A cow with stripes painted on it could hold the key to solving an ongoing issue with cattle around the world. Researchers from Aichi Agricultural Research Center, Kyoto University and Aichi ...

The apparent effects of the stripes were remarkable. The number of biting flies observed on zebra-striped cows was less than half the number seen on unpainted cows and far less than cows painted with ...

In fact, cows with those stripes saw a 50 percent reduction in flies even landing on them. Kojima et al. The cows sporting different pattern treatments; (a) black and white stripes, (b) ...

Pest control Rudyard Kipling may have answered how the leopard got its spots and the camel its hump, but he never explained the zebra's stripes. A new study helps fill in the void, this time with ...

Why do zebras have stripes? Many have considered the classic quandary, Darwin included. Stripes could be camouflage, create herd-wide optical illusions to deter hungry carnivores like lions or ...

The back of a tiger could have been a blank canvas. Instead, nature painted the big cat with parallel stripes, evenly spaced and perpendicular to the spine. Scientists don't know exactly how ...