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