How the zebra got its stripes
Subtitle: Darwinian stories told through evolutionary biology
By: Léo Grasset ; [translation by Barbara Mellor]
Contributors: Mellor, Barbara, translator
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781681774145
Subjects: Miscellanea; Savanna animals
Work titles: Coup de la girafe
Description: 154 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm
Notes: Translation from the French of: Le coup de la girafe : des savants dans la savane.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-143) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Evolution in its guises; title: The female hyena's penis; title: The giraffe's long neck; title: The random flight of the gazelle; title: How the zebra got its stripes; title: Part II. The mysteries of animal behaviour; title: The air-conditioning of the termite mound; title: The impala's Mexican waves; title: Elephant dictatorship vs buffalo democracy; title: The antelope art of sexual manipulation; title: Part III. Extraordinary creatures; title: Dung beetle navigation; title: Seismic signalling in the elephants' sound-world; title: Honey badger: weapon of mass destruction; title: The truth about the Lion King; title: Part IV. The human factor; title: How to turn a lion into a cub-killer; title: Catastrophic change; title: Human evolution and its impact; title: Epilogue. The zebras and me.