[teddythetwig]

It has, think about natural camouflage like zebras. It short circuits the predators ability to pick out individual herd members.

[brute]

Minor correction: Predators like lions have no problem distinguishing individual members of a herd. The stripes pattern messes with the way blood-sucking, disease-spreading flies (such as horse flies or tsetse flies) see the world.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzwpv/the-reason...