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The Real Just So Stories: How the Zebra Got Its Stripes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

5/5. Alistair McGowan explores the truth behind Kipling's children's stories.

Kipling assumed, as did many zoologists, that the stripes are camouflage, but the truth turns out to be more surprising: they make zebras invisible to tsetse flies.

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Presenter:
Alistair McGowan
Producer:
Jolyon Jenkins

BBC Radio 4 FM

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