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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: why (evolutionarily) are zebras striped?
- Date: 1 Jan 93 19:03:08 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.204015.18922@husc3.harvard.edu> mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Levin) writes:
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- > Does anyone have any ideas why zebras are striped? Surely in the
- >sense of camouflage, those yellowish african plains call for a
- >monotone antelope-like color. Why are they striped? Please reply to
- >mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu.
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- >Mike Levin
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- Tall grasses have light and dark shadows. Try to find a zebra in the tall
- grasses of some of those plains. :>
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- Crystal
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