{"id":153925,"date":"2026-08-30T14:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/30\/scientists-once-thought-zebra-stripes-might-help-confuse-predators-but-when-researchers-dressed-horses-in-zebra-striped-coats-biting-flies-repeatedly-failed-to-land-adding-to-evidence-that\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:53:46","slug":"scientists-once-thought-zebra-stripes-might-help-confuse-predators-but-when-researchers-dressed-horses-in-zebra-striped-coats-biting-flies-repeatedly-failed-to-land-adding-to-evidence-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/30\/scientists-once-thought-zebra-stripes-might-help-confuse-predators-but-when-researchers-dressed-horses-in-zebra-striped-coats-biting-flies-repeatedly-failed-to-land-adding-to-evidence-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting flies repeatedly failed to land \u2014 adding to evidence that the famous pattern evolved to thwart insects, not lions &#8211; ScienceBlog.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuwJBVV95cUxNY0hxLVdDUDJJV0VKaHYxVTc3cERwaGdPdXNleEpNNGJlU2hWT3REQ3ZDckNPVWxfeGY3TTJXZzBoc1psV3pwY1VocUljRHMtOU9RdHBlVXVyWElqTWJrQTV2UzVnZUlSNTBMVXg2d1J6WDNfMlVNMVVScm1JZllvSzNPcmFvUWI4Yy1SbXBPWHZwS1BDU29iN2lpYVVBYVpqTTRZa1N5YmlyVEZGblplYXh1Sy13Wk5LSlpLRGhxOHkxblFwWlZkbjNFbHNabTFYazNnSkNCaElVaTJ2ZkdER3lvN2pyN0ZHTmYtNm1JSlpKZENTd2k2YTVqdHR5V2ZYazdIN2Jfc0paT3JVTDVSOEhqQzdyblp0NVh1dmVSR1B5akRtNkpGeldLaGRtYTdvbE9VS3BReGJKYTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting flies repeatedly failed to land \u2014 adding to evidence that the famous pattern evolved to thwart insects, not lions<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">ScienceBlog.com<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting flies repeatedly failed to land \u2014 adding&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/30\/scientists-once-thought-zebra-stripes-might-help-confuse-predators-but-when-researchers-dressed-horses-in-zebra-striped-coats-biting-flies-repeatedly-failed-to-land-adding-to-evidence-that\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}