Striped Cows?

 

Japan wins 19th Ig Nobel Prize for painting stripes on a cow

A Japanese research team's experiment involving disguising a cow as a zebra to fend off bloodthirsty insects received the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize's biology category on Sept. 18, making this the 19th consecutive year a team from Japan has won.

The results indicated that painting cows and other livestock to look like zebras is an actual viable alternative to insecticides, representing a potential new method of pest control beneficial to both the environment and human health.

Of course the problem is how to make cow painting cost effective