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These days, horses are looking more and more like zebras. That’s because riders
have been draping them in black-and-white striped garments.
This began as a fad, but
then grew more serious. Folks began noticing that these striped
horses attracted fewer and fewer “bloodsucking flies.” Could this then be how zebras originally
earned their stripes?
After all, flies carry
disease. If stripes somehow deterred flies from
spreading nasty payloads, then
evolution may have been the deciding factor. Stripes fostered survival, and survival bred more stripes. Sorry Kipling, but science seems to have won
this round.
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