A team of Japanese researchers recruited six cows and gave them each black-and-white stripes, black stripes and no stripes. They took photos of the cow’s painted right side, counting the number ...

Japanese black cows attracted only half as many flies when they were painted black and white, an experiment carried out in Japan showed. In addition, the camouflaged cattle were forced into ...

Using water-based spray paint, one group of cows was given a fresh coat of white stripes, about two inches wide, each morning. A second group got black stripes, and a third, the control group ...

According to the research, published in PLOS One science journal, cows were painted with two designs: black-and-white painted stripes and black painted stripes. The other two were left with no ...