This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature ...

Stakeholders are meeting in Abidjan to deliberate on the measures to be enforced in saving the wellbeing of donkeys which ...

Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals.

Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog colour patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals.

More information: Daniel J. Ingram et al, Regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests, Nature Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01494-5.

In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake, some morphs display red, yellow, or pink blotches, and ...

Researchers studied African penguins in the colony at Zoomarine Italia in Rome. Cristina Pilenga. With their nearly identical black-and-white feathers, how can penguins tell each other apart when ...

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How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics. ... Understanding how animals’ intricate spots and stripes form can help scientists mimic those processes in the lab, potentially improving ...

Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals. The colors making up ...

For instance, as a warning signal, distinct colors make them clearly visible to other animals. In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential ...