{"id":25641,"date":"2010-06-19T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/19\/one-zebra-or-two\/"},"modified":"2010-06-19T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T17:35:09","slug":"one-zebra-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/one-zebra-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"One Zebra or two?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/secret_folder\/Zebra_PilanesbergDSCN0017-0.jpeg?w=500\" alt=\"a picture of something\"  data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>In theory, zebras use their stripes in combination with their herding and flight behavior to confuse predators.  The confusion probably makes it harder for the predator (e.g., a lion) to be able to avoid a damaging kick because the stripes make it difficult to tell where one zebra starts and the other ends.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a dramatization of how this might work.  Or not.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y6NyQSHTVOU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fhH262ltcNM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t watch it to the end. How do things turn out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In theory, zebras use their stripes in combination with their herding and flight behavior to confuse predators. The confusion probably makes it harder for the predator (e.g., a lion) to be able to avoid a damaging kick because the stripes make it difficult to tell where one zebra starts and the other ends. Here is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/one-zebra-or-two\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Zebra or two?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Fz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}