Why do some deer species retain spots in adulthood?

Biologists have spent a century or more pondering why organisms look the way they do. Two common principle ideas include camouflage and mate attraction.
We thought that stripes on zebras were to confuse predators, break up the outline of the animals, or even provide individual identity (no two zebras look alike, at least to other zebras).

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