Do Zebra stripes confuse biting flies?
from Three-Minute Egghead Hosted by Andy Fell, UC Davis
The function of zebra stripes has puzzled people for millennia. UC Davis biologists put to the test one theory -- that the stripes confuse biting flies by disrupting polarized light.
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