摘要
你还记得《马达加斯加》中的斑马马蒂吗?有一个问题一直困扰着它:它到底是黑白相间,还是白黑相间?除了'黑色是主色,还是白色是主色'的问题,有关它身上的条纹,马蒂需要关心的还有很多。为什么斑马有条纹?或者说这些条纹有什么用?最新的实验表明,斑马身上的条纹增加了马蝇或其他昆虫着陆斑马身体的难度。
Do you still remember Marty,the zebra in Madagascar? Hewonders all the time:Is he black with white,or white with black?About his stripes there is more beyond the question that black is themain color or the white one.Why do zebras have stripes? Or why are the strips important tozebras?The newly experiments made by researchers suggest that stripsmake it hard for horse flies or other insects to land on the zebra.One experiment goes like this: The researchers put blanketswith stripes on horses and saw that fewer flies landed on them.
