Computer games help explain lizard stripes
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 08:21
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram has found that stripes on lizards cause predators to see them as moving slower than they actually are, causing attackers to miss their targets. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, Gopal Murali and Ullasa Kodandaramaiah discuss their theories on why some animals have stripes, their experiments with grad students playing specially designed computer games and what they found as a result.