Do zebras smell of paint?
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Isa@feddit.org 2 months ago
Sure, that it wasn’t the smell of the paint, that drove the insects away?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Isa@feddit.org 2 months ago
This doesn’t help very much.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months ago
If you look at the study you can see that they also had a treatment of black stripes on black cows to control for just that:
Isa@feddit.org 2 months ago
Thanks for the response. 🙂 I indeed hadn’t look into the paper as there was no link in the original post, but I have done so now and it seem, you are right. Thanks! 👍
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Well, it is certainly a sign of good critical thinking skills to ask a question like this! And thanks to you I actually had a look at the study itself :)