How Do Animals Get Such Distinctive Patterns

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Animals come in all shapes and sizes, but also pretty much all patterns. Those patterns might function as camouflage, aid in finding mates or help them regulate heat,but now scientists might have figured out how they form.

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00:00animals come in all shapes and sizes but also pretty much all patterns those patterns might

00:08function as camouflage aid in finding mates or help them regulate heat but now scientists may

00:13have figured out how they form the researchers liken the process to one you might see when a

00:18bit of ink diffuses in water the colors swirl and create somewhat of a pattern but the difference

00:23is that a well-defined design never emerges so the researchers employ the use of a computer

00:27simulation specifically designed to mimic a process called diffusio pheresis instead diffusio pheresis

00:33is a spontaneous motion of colloidal particles or molecules in a fluid rather than a fluid in a

00:39fluid or a solid in a fluid like other processes and when they conducted their experiments with

00:43these defined parameters they noticed that not only did patterns emerge but they were well defined

00:48just like animal patterns in nature but this isn't all just for curiosity's sake researcher

00:53on gupta writes for the conversation that skin patches could be produced that can sense changes

00:58and diagnose medical conditions or monitor a patient's health by detecting changes in biochemical

01:03markers adding that they believe this process may also play an underappreciated role in the

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