What if the flies just hated the smell of the paint lol

Can someone forward this to Trump's team

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.

If they figure out if it's the white stripes or black stripes that do the trick they could reach 100%.

I first read function as in mathemetical function, now I wonder, what the avarege zebras stripes function is

Source? I'm curious to read about this. How do they know the paint didn't do it? Another comment here said that spots also do the trick, so if you have two cows in the same field, one spotted and one solid colored, is the solid colored cow getting 2x as many flies? Do the stripes still work when surrounded by other cows who don't have stripes? So many questions!