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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sure, that it wasn't the smell of the paint, that drove the insects away?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you look at the study you can see that they also had a treatment of black stripes on black cows to control for just that:

The cows were assigned to treatments using a 3 × 3 Latin-square design. The treatments consisted of black-and-white painted stripes (B&W), black painted stripes (B), and no stripes (CONT) as a control (Fig 1).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response. 🙂 I indeed hadn't look into the paper as there was no link in the original post, but I have done so now and it seem, you are right. Thanks! 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well, it is certainly a sign of good critical thinking skills to ask a question like this! And thanks to you I actually had a look at the study itself :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do zebras smell of paint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This doesn't help very much.