 When we look, for instance, at the coat of a zebra with its thunder-andlightning pattern of black and white stripes, we should think such a conspicuous object  The Auk - Page 3481917Full view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1892 - 878 pages
...be at once convinced of the truth of G remark. Prof. Henry Drummond further says :—" \Vhenwelookat the coat of a zebra, with its thunder-and-lightning...stripes, we should think such a conspicuous object designed to court, rather than elude, attention. But the etice: in nature is just the opposite. The... | |
 | 1902 - 312 pages
...suggests a very opposite theory, the harmony of color with environment is always more or less striking. When we look, for instance, at the coat of a zebra...stripes, we should think such a conspicuous object designed to court rather than to elude attention. But the effect in nature is just the opposite. The... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...suggests a very opposite theory, the harmony of color with environment is always more or less striking. When we look, for instance, at the coat of a zebra,...stripes, we should think such a conspicuous object designed to court rather than to elude attention. But the effect in nature is just the opposite. The... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...suggests a very opposite theory, the harmony of color with environment is always more or less striking. When we look, for instance, at the coat of a zebra,...stripes, we should think such a conspicuous object designed to court rather than to elude attention. But the effect in nature is just the opposite. The... | |
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