Unlike the zebra, they are brown along the rear half ... and lately an increase in the brown background color showing that our original idea was in fact correct,” says Harley.

According to the traditional theory, stripes allow a zebra to hide against similar-looking backgrounds ... when in fact color vision will vary between different animals. To properly test the ...

“It all started when fishermen caught some strange looking sharks off the coast of Kenya,” says Dr. Rikke Beckmann Dahl of the Taiwan International Graduate Program. “They were recognizable ...

And even better, because zebra finches have good color vision, building a camouflaged nest might be possible. So Bailey’s team gathered 21 pairs of zebra finches, some of which were already ...