It is thought that the alternating black and white stripes on zebras create interference patterns in the UV spectrum and confuse insects so the horses don’t get bit so much.
It’s a wonder that some butterflies can find one another.
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Every few months another study comes out that finds that zebra stripes are not useful for camouflage, and that therefore, Darwin and Wallace were wrong.
Fewer are the studies that propose what the stripes are actually used for, though most guesses seem to revolve around cooling (stripes creating convention currents), insect repellent (somehow messing with the UV light that biting bugs see), and the fact that black and white stripes are rockin’ cool.
I would, however, like to propose an alternative. My guess is that zebras just really like messing with humans.
Suddenly realized that, because light is made of photons and photons have energy, and almost no substances approach 100% reflectivity, that when light shines on something, it gets just a little bit bigger.
This means that contrary to literature, shadows are not extremely thin. Instead, shadows bore very shallow holes into everything they touch.