I’m going on holiday to Cambodia in February. Guess I’ll bring my body paint supplies and run around in war stripes over my body.
Can confirm, insects are drawn to brightness
Luckily my soul is dark and bitter.
I’m about to start dressing like beetlejuice
In the cited study with buckets, it was shown that striped and spotted surfaces attract fewer flies.
That makes me think if Nguni cattle have an easier time with those pests.
If yes, that would be another plus for hardy landraces in place of overengineered, capitalmaxxed breeds.
Tha smartest mother fucker in the room
What is the burger tie for? To repel hippies?
No it’s to wipe the sauce off his chin after finishing a burger!
Moobra
Time to dust off my old timey prison outfit
Can’t wait to see this in British fields whenever I venture outside the basement!
Some horse fly blankets and hoods have a zebra pattern, probably for the same reason.
So, I was able to convince a coworker that I had a friend who worked at our nearby zoo, and that my friend let me in on the secret that zebras aren’t real, they’re just horses painted to look like that, “big zoo is lying to us to get our money,” you know.
Well, long story short I’m gonna need to steal this image from you and crop it, thanks.
That one zoo that painted a donkey and tried to pass it off as a zebra were just way ahead of their time
Wasn’t that a dog and a panda?
Why has evolution let these cows down?
I mean, we kind of hijacked evolution in favor of hypergrowth and ludicrous gazongas a long time ago.
Hippity, hoppity. Your natural selection is now my property!
In most places flies are more nuisances than actual threats to large mammals. But then, there are the tsé-tsé flies…
[Edit : Had previously written “horses” instead of “flies” by accident]
Reminds me of a donkey I saw in Mexico painted like a zebra trying to trick tourists
Sure, but there’s also the secondary market of people who think it’s hilarious to get a photo with a donkey painted like a zebra to trick tourists. Lean into it a bit, like wrestling, it could be fun.
After 10 Pacificos I will in fact be leaning
This is no donkey painted like a zebra, it’s a majestic hybrid zonkey. Just 5 dollars to take a photo, or 3 for $10.
I’ll come back after 10 Pacificos
HEy aMIgO!! Lemme ride the ZOnKey!! VAMANOS! Cien pesos!!hiccup
Why are the top comments in a science community so proudly anti-intellectual?
It’s a meme community, it’s kinda in the name. Brains go out, meme go in. Monke laugh
Yeah but is this community for the scientists, or the memers!
Yes.
Looks like this is the study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776349/
Doesnt this study just imply that paint repels mosquitos? If they wanted to disprove that I don’t see why they wouldnt use black paint instead of what they did which was using black cows. If you paint a black cow black, and it gets bit less, that would sort of give it away wouldnt it?
You’re a hero.
FYI if this sort of study is your thing, Temple Grandin published her studies as a volume and they’re quite good reading. More of them delve into human psychology than you’d think for someone who’s famous for working with animals. Source: I paged through it while waiting in a book store