This year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners include researchers who painted cows like zebras and a team who analyzed the pizza preferences of lizards.

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The tongue-in-cheek scientific awards also recognise research into lizard's preferred pizza and garlicky breastmilk.

A group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels.

This year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners include researchers who painted cows like zebras and a team who analyzed the pizza preferences of lizards.

It is Japan’s 19th consecutive win at the tongue-in-cheek award, which honours research that ‘first makes people laugh, then makes them think’.