From Strange to Inspiring
The web is full of fun, entertaining time sinks and I thought I would share a few of them with you for New Years. If you have some others you like please do send us the link so we can share them too.
JUMPING HORSE
WHY HORSEFLIES DON’T TROUBLE WHITE HORSES:
Dr Gábor Horváth discovered that white horses attract fewer flies.
He and five colleagues wrote a study called An Unexpected Advantage of Whiteness in Horses: The Most Horsefly-proof Horse Has a Depolarising White Coat, which they published recently in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
They experimented with a small number of sticky horses and a large number of horseflies (of the variety called tabanids). The horses were sticky because the scientists had coated them with “a transparent, odourless and colourless insect monitoring glue [called] Babolna Bio mouse trap”.
The scientists brought the horses — one black, one brown, one white — to a grassy field in the town of Szokolya, Hungary. Every other day, they collected and counted the flies that had become attached to the sticky horses.
The results, tallied over 54 summer days: the sticky brown horse trapped 15 times as many flies as the sticky white horse. And the black horse, poor thing, trapped a whopping, buzzing 25 times as many flies as the white one. Read more…
ANOTHER OF THE SAME HORSE AT LIBERTY
A FUN BRIDLELESS DEMO
Patches The Horse
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