:: For some reason, these flies avoid landing on black and white striped surfaces. ::
That’s RAYCISS!
I really hate when science books say that an animal evolved something for it’s benefit. This is the classic lie that is told in grade and high school science classes. They make it seem that there was some intelligent mechanism that helped the animal to evolve, when instead if evolution is true then the only thing driving it is dumb luck.
Or, did the flies inherit a disdain for being whacked by the Zebra’s tail, and stop landing on black/white striped objects?
Lions don’t have stripes? Don’t tell the tigers.
I ate Zebra a few weeks ago in South Africa. Pretty tasty....for a striped horse/mule/ass/donkey.
Same thing with referees. You’ll never see flies around a referee. You do see a lot of bees around referees, though. Bees and kangaroos. You always see them around referees.
Don’t believe it. It was settled science. 97% of zoologists agree that zebra stripes serve as camouflage against lions. The camo-stripe deniers have some kind of an agenda. Once science is settled by consensus, deniers should stop trying to prove it wrong.
“...zebras’ stripes are actually for preventing bites from nasty insects, such as tabanids (horse flies).”
If they bit zebras, they would be called zebra flies. How obvious can it be?
Valerie Jarrett should paint stripes on her sock puppet Obama. Zero needs some fly repellent.
Oh my!
Maybe this is evidence that natural selection doesn't work.......at least not in fly populations.
......and that's the problem with so much of Darwinian thinking: Natural selection is believed with certainty to explain all things, so contrarian thinking is not even imaginable to the majority of our evolutionary biologists.
Why didn’t the other mammals evolve stripes?
I'm going with the lion theory. Think about it for a minute.
If your stripes keep the flies away that has no impact whatsoever on your survivability. If your stripes confuse lions WHO WILL KILL YOU it has a huge impact.
...African Wild Ass...Those African Wild Asses are dangerous:
One is running around Chicongo in a beat up White Crown Vic that the coppers are looking for. He shot two people yesterday in a span of a couple hours, one of whom died on scene, the other in critical condition with a bullet in his brain. And when the Cops find him he's gonna wish he had Black & White stripes as he's gonna get ventilated given the chance.So if you ever come upon these African Wild Asses be very aware, those asses are very unpredictable.And this past Saturday about 100 African Wild Asses had a nice little riot, aka 'Wilding', where the Rich Folk live, Shop & Party -- 'The Mag Mile', and right in the middle of the street at Chicago Avenue & Michigan Ave. But 'somehow' Chicongo's crack media missed reporting on this event, I found out through a police source.