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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...
Autores principales: | Melin, Amanda D., Kline, Donald W., Hiramatsu, Chihiro, Caro, Tim |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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