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TIL: There is a breed of goat that is half black and half white -- The Valais Blackneck goat (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/til@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10765623

(Full disclosure, I learned this yesterday.)

Found in this video, at the 1min mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHN2eNigz3o

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[–] Edgecrusher35@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How can this possibly be an evolutionary advantage? Nature is wild.

[–] Renevar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

Well, I ain't no animal scientist but most fur patterns that I'm aware of exist to either make the animal blend in (by being the same color as stuff around them) or to break up their form so it's harder to recognize from a distance, and I can see how being literally cut in half color wise could help break up their shape

Again that's just a guess on my part tho

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