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Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans

The century-old idea that stripes make zebras cryptic to large carnivores has never been examined systematically. We evaluated this hypothesis by passing digital images of zebras through species-specific spatial and colour filters to simulate their appearance for the visual systems of zebras’ primar...

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Autores principales: Melin, Amanda D., Kline, Donald W., Hiramatsu, Chihiro, Caro, Tim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4723339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26799935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145679