THE WILD GUIDE
Jun 08, 2018
2 minutes
PIC: Justin van Doorene
“It appears that the striped coats of zebras have an adaptive function to reduce the risk of parasitism by those organisms causing sleeping sickness and other lethal diseases”
In the next of our ‘often seen but largely under-appreciated’ group of animals, I would like to share with you something of the singularity and amazing environmental adaptation of ‘horses in striped pyjamas’. So convinced was I as a child
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