LEADER 03745nam 22005655 450 001 9910151642103321 005 20241030220909.0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226411156 035 $a(CKB)3710000000948617 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4745273 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001605125 035 $a(DE-B1597)523229 035 $a(OCoLC)963934629 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226411156 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000948617 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aZebra Stripes /$fTim Caro 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (319 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 08$aPrint version : 9780226411019 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface and acknowledgments --$t1. Stripes and equids --$t2. Predation and crypsis --$t3. Predation and aposematism --$t4. Predation and confusion --$t5. Ectoparasites --$t6. Intraspecific communication --$t7. Temperature regulation --$t8. Multifactorial analyses --$t9. The case for biting flies --$tAppendix 1 --$tAppendix 2 --$tAppendix 3 --$tAppendix 4 --$tAppendix 5 --$tAppendix 6 --$tAppendix 7 --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aFrom eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now hardly any have been seriously addressed or even tested. In Zebra Stripes, Tim Caro takes readers through a decade of painstaking fieldwork examining the significance of black-and-white striping and, after systematically dismissing every hypothesis for these markings with new data, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: zebra markings are nature's defense against biting fly annoyance. Popular explanations for stripes range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a serious challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro is able to weigh up the pros and cons of each idea. Eventually-driven by experiments showing that biting flies avoid landing on striped surfaces, observations that striping is most intense where biting flies are abundant, and knowledge of zebras' susceptibility to biting flies and vulnerability to the diseases that flies carry-Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack. Not just a tale of one scientist's quest to solve a classic mystery of biology, Zebra Stripes is also a testament to the tremendous value of longitudinal research in behavioral ecology, demonstrating how observation, experiment, and comparative research can together reshape our understanding of the natural world. 606 $aZebras$xColor 606 $aStripes 606 $aProtective coloration (Biology) 610 $aadaptive significance. 610 $ablack and white coloration. 610 $aequids. 610 $aevolution. 610 $ahypothesis testing. 610 $azebras. 615 0$aZebras$xColor. 615 0$aStripes. 615 0$aProtective coloration (Biology) 676 $a599.66571472 700 $aCaro$b Tim$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0921847 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151642103321 996 $aZebra Stripes$92068339 997 $aUNINA