Name: Why do zebras have stripes? Solved: The mystery of a zebra's stripes - News Review
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he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to news Review the program where we give you the language from the latest news headlines and tell you how to use it in your everyday English.

Hello, I'm nail Joining me today is Katherine.

Today story nail is about a zebra and the mystery of its strike Okay, let's find out more about the mystery of the zebra stripes.

From this BBC interview we put striping rugs on horses to see how they affected the number of visits by horse flies a same time.

We're also looking at real zebras who also happened to be present at this horse delivery.

And what we found is that incredibly the once he adds stripes to a horse, it drops the number of horse fly visits dramatically.

Now he's been doing research into the mystery off the zebras stripes?

A zebra is the black and white horse like animal that lives in Africa.

Now what they did in the researchers, the dressed of ordinary horses to look like zebras, they actually put black or white stripey blankets or rugs as they call them on these emperors.

And they discovered that when you put a stripey blanket on a horse, it gets visited a lot less by flies.

So they thought, Well, this must be y zebras are stripey because a stripey animal is less attractive to flies.

I might start wearing a zebra coat like everybody else in the summer.

Okay, you've been looking at this story, and you've picked out three words and expressions.

What are they we have evade to deter Andi earning their stripes evade to deter on earning their stripes.

Okay, so your first headline with that word evade fit headline comes from Earth sky.

New research suggests that stripes help zebras evade biting flies.

And it's to do with responsibility and obligation, isn't it?

Talking of responsibility and obligation.

What kind of a question is that of course I pay tax.

OK, so you're not avoiding or evading your responsibilities.

What would you do if you wanted to avoid paying tax?

Well, I suppose I could move to a country that didn't have tax or had very low tax, some working, some working.

Notre or I could come up with ways not to pay Neo e.

So you're deliberately and purposely avoiding your responsibilities in a way that's basically wrong.

So it would be It's my legal responsibility to pay tax on by not doing so.

And we'll just go to this spelling there.

Now, if you evade tax, you may be charged with the crime off.

OK, next headline we have comes from the Guardian.

Why the zebra got its stripes to deter flies from London on it to deter to do something in order to change the actions off something.

So in this case, the stripey coat deters flies.

It means it stops the flights from landing on it on.

We can use deter to mean stop somebody or something, doing something, usually because we don't want that thing toe happen.

Okay, so we've got a bit of a situation in our office.

Haven't way the continuing biscuit thievery scenario.

We won't name him himself to the biscuits.

We've got a number of methods, some more successful than others.

Yeah, the electric fence was very That was really cool.

It stops this person for a while until he discovered how to avoid or get round this electric fence.

Okay, let's now have a look at our final headline.

Study finds earning their stripes doing something to make others respect to them?

All kind of organisational expression, isn't it?

Yeah, and hierarchy in levels of responsibility.

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