/ camouflage Content for UC Davis en /news/why-pandas-are-black-and-white-answered <p>The scientists who uncovered <a href="/news/wildlife-biologist-earns-his-zebra-stripes-new-book">why zebras have black-and-white stripes</a> (to repel biting flies), took the coloration question to giant pandas in <a href="https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/doi/10.1093/beheco/arx008/3058530/Why-is-the-giant-panda-black-and-white">a study published this week</a> in the journal <em>Behavioral Ecology.</em></p> March 03, 2017 - 12:18pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/why-pandas-are-black-and-white-answered /news/zebra-stripes-not-camouflage-new-study-finds <p>If you鈥檝e always thought of a zebra鈥檚 stripes as offering some type of camouflaging protection against predators, it鈥檚 time to think again, suggest scientists at the University of Calgary and UC Davis.</p> <p>Findings from their study will be published Friday, Jan. 22, in the journal <a href="http://www.plosone.org/">PLOS ONE</a>.</p> January 22, 2016 - 2:46pm Patricia Bailey /news/zebra-stripes-not-camouflage-new-study-finds /news/scientists-solve-riddle-zebras-stripes <p>Why zebras have black and white stripes is a question that has intrigued scientists and spectators for centuries. A research team led by the University of California, Davis, has now examined this riddle systematically. Their answer is published today, April 1, in the online journal Nature Communications.</p> April 01, 2014 - 8:50am IET WebDev /news/scientists-solve-riddle-zebras-stripes