About 30 miles north of the equator, in central Kenya, Kaia Tombak and her colleagues stood beside a plexiglass box. Tombak, who studies the evolution of animals’ social behavior, was dressed for the ...
A couple years ago, I shared an elegant study about the reasons that zebras are striped (more here). In short, that study found that horseflies (tabanids) and the deadly diseases they transmit were ...