Research Catalog
Zebra stripes
- Title
- Zebra stripes / Tim Caro.
- Author
- Caro, T. M. (Timothy M.)
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QL737.U62 C38 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 268 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a 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 concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265) and index.
- Contents
- Stripes and equids -- Predation and crypsis -- Predation and aposematism -- Predation and confusion -- Ectoparasites -- Intraspecific communication -- Temperature regulation -- Multifactorial analyses -- The case for biting flies.
- ISBN
- 9780226411019
- 022641101X
- 9780226411156 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016019386
- 99971933298
- 40026811856
- OCLC
- ocn944087652
- 944087652
- SCSB-5887557
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries