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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

See, some people think forcible sterilization is never acceptable, and yet we have multiple comments from people that didn't read the study asking if the authors thought of something.

Maybe you'd know if you were literate.

You can have your balls back if you do your homework.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Being illiterate has no correlation with wanting other people to do all the work for me. We're just lazy. Please do some homework before jumping to conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

still sounds like reproduction being a privilege is a good idea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That scene in Idiocracy where the smart couple fail to reproduce comes to mind.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Interesting. A while ago, I read that zebra stripes were meant to confuse predators. Basically, the idea was that when they ran as a herd, their stripes made it difficult to tell where one zebra ended and the other began. I wonder if that's considered bunk now or if this is supposed to be an additional benefit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sure, that it wasn't the smell of the paint, that drove the insects away?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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:

The cows were assigned to treatments using a 3 × 3 Latin-square design. The treatments consisted of black-and-white painted stripes (B&W), black painted stripes (B), and no stripes (CONT) as a control (Fig 1).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Can't wait to see this in British fields whenever I venture outside the basement!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Awesome. Now narrow down the mechanism with further research.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Can someone forward this to Trump's team

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