Skunks Evolved To Have Different Fur Patterns; Warning Stripes Less Prominent With Low Threat From Predation

Medicine & Technology Nov 23, 2023

Skunks can lose their iconic black and white stripes which depends on the threat of predation. Continue reading the article to find out more.

AI Can Identify Large Cats Through Their Stripes

Aug 18, 2022

An Environmental Investigation Agency official said individual large cats can be determined from their stripes using artificial intelligence. Read to know more.

How Pollutions Are Causing Urban Sea Snakes To Lose Their Stripes

Aug 13, 2017

Due to several human activities, the contamination of zinc and other pollutant substances increases that cause sea snakes to shed their skin more often.

Revealed: Why Some Chickens Have Stripes In Their Feathers

Apr 09, 2017

Scientists found how mutations are associated with the sex-linked barring pattern on the feather of some chicken breeds. Coucou de Rennes, which is one of the most popular french breeds has two different types of mutations.

Research: Animal Stripes Are All Mathematical

Dec 29, 2015

Harvard researchers made a mathematical model on how animals develop their stripes in certain patterns.

How Zebra Stripes and Rising Sea Levels Have More In Common Than You Thought

Jan 16, 2015

Though the two may seem entirely unrelated at first, one being a long misunderstood mystery and the other the byproduct of climate change, a new study reveals that a zebra’s stripes may too be caused by environmental factors making our sea levels rise.

How Zebras Got Their Stripes & Why Climate Change is Likely to Blame

Jan 15, 2015

While they're not alone in the vast wonders of Africa's abundant plains, zebras in particular have posed quite a quandary to scientists in past decades. Their unique striping of black and white have always sparked interest in their study, but the ever failing hypotheses quickly discouraged the discovery of their significance-if any at all. But while many researchers have failed in associating the stripes with social order of a herd or even as camouflaging tactics in the wild, a new study published this month in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers have discovered that the stripes are much more like a tan than we think.