Author : Timothy M. Caro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022641101X
Book Description
Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.