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- From: andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor)
- Subject: Re: why (evolutionarily) are zebras striped?
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 02:29:17 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec31.204015.18922@husc3.harvard.edu> <crystal.725914988@glia> <1JAN199320283193@utkvx3.utk.edu>
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- In article <1JAN199320283193@utkvx3.utk.edu> ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu (Leslie Lamont Jones) writes:
- >This hypothesis may be right or wrong, but it leads to the question
- >of how the predator's vision works, which leads to the question of what
- >the zebra's main predators are.
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- Lion and African Hunting Dog take Zebras regularly, Hyenas and Leopards do
- so at least occasionally.
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- >Then again, the stripes could be camouflage, as Crystal suggested.
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- Not to my eye.
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- Andrew Taylor
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