Zebra's Stripes Ward off Tiny Predators

In this article it explains that certain bugs (in this case horse fly's) are attracted to certain colors and fended off by others. They explain in the article that horseflys are attracted to dark colors such as brown and black but turned away from the simple color of white.

The darker the horse is the more unlucky they are. Researchers say that this is probebly why zebras adapted to their excentric patterns of black and white. This article relates back to class in that we were discussing dominate and resessive traits as well as why these traits are possbly selected for, and in this case it is to escape the annoying horsefly's.