Now to sth completely different! After "why zebras don't have ulcers" was answered by Sapolsky, here is the next question: "how do zebras get their stripes" answered by a new maths research in @apsphysics :
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.034402
Inspiring also for non-flat cosmologies... 😁

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Hundrieser, S., Klatt, M., Munk, A. (2022). The Statistics of Circular Optimal Transport. In: SenGupta, A., Arnold, B.C. (eds) Directional Statistics for Innovative Applications. Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Springer, Singapore.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1044-9_4

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