Want to know how to avoid mosquitoes this summer? Well, ask a zebra. According to scientists at the University of California at Davis, the best explanation for why the animals are adourned with their ...

Biting flies cause an estimated $2.2 billion in damages each year to the cattle industry. Cows with black-and-white zebra stripes cut fly bites in half, according to a new study. More research is ...

Ranchers might want to consider painting "zebra stripes" on their livestock. According to a new study published in PLoS ONE, the measure reduces the number of biting flies on cows by more than half.

Zebra stripes, besides looking very cool, help to ward off biting flies, a new study finds. The research, published in Nature Communications, negates the popular theory that zebra stripes evolved for ...

What if cows could avoid flies from biting them just by wearing stripes? According to a new study published in PLOS ONE, when Japanese researchers painted zebra-style stripes on cows, biting flies ...

These cows are dressed up to look like zebras, but not because they’re in the moo-d for Halloween. A group of agricultural researchers are giving cows zebra-like stripes because they seem to deter ...

A newly published paper by behavioral and evolutionary ecologist, Tim Caro, who studies animal coloration at the University of California at Davis, and an international team of researchers reports ...