Experts discover how zebra stripes work to thwart horsefly attacks
Feb 2023, phys.org
Idk I just find this really funny
via University of Bristol: Tim Caro et al, Why don't horseflies land on zebras?, Journal of Experimental Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244778
Post Script:
In case you need help channeling your inner 3rd-grader, it's a close-up of a beetle's butthole which you can call a "hindgut" if you want to sound more professional:
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| Microscopic cross-section of the beetle's hindgut - Kenneth Veland Halberg at University of Copenhagen - 2023 |
And if you want to see what happens when you cross a professional science photographer with an automatic image cropping script for a news aggregator service -- accidental adult imagery:
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| Embedded textile sensor - Valeria Galli ETH Zurich - 2023 |
