Cargando…

Why don't horseflies land on zebras?

Stripes deter horseflies (tabanids) from landing on zebras and, while several mechanisms have been proposed, these hypotheses have yet to be tested satisfactorily. Here, we investigated three possible visual mechanisms that could impede successful tabanid landings (aliasing, contrast and polarizatio...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Caro, Tim, Fogg, Eva, Stephens-Collins, Tamasin, Santon, Matteo, How, Martin J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10088525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36700395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244778