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Experimental evidence that stripes do not cool zebras

There are as many as 18 theories for the possible functions of the stripes of zebras, one of which is to cool the animal. We performed field experiments and thermographic measurements to investigate whether thermoregulation might work for zebra-striped bodies. A zebra body was modelled by water-fill...

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Autores principales: Horváth, Gábor, Pereszlényi, Ádám, Száz, Dénes, Barta, András, Jánosi, Imre M., Gerics, Balázs, Åkesson, Susanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6008466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29921931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27637-1

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