(The Company of Biologists) Horseflies are unpleasant insects that deliver powerful bites and now it seems that zebras evolved their stripes to avoid attracting the unpleasant pests. Gábor Horváth from Eötvös University, Hungary, and Susanne Åkesson from Lund University, Sweden, show that zebras have the least attractive hides for horseflies.
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