TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grasset,Léo
AU  - Mellor,Barbara
TI  - How the zebra got its stripes: Darwinian stories told through evolutionary biology 
SN  - 9781681774145
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Books
KW  - Savanna animals
KW  - Africa
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Animals
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Adaptation (Biology)
KW  - Behavior evolution
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Trivia and miscellanea
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Translation of: Le coup de la girafe : des savants dans la savane. 2015; Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-143) and index; Part I. Evolution in its guises. 1. The female hyena's penis ; 2. The giraffe's long neck ; 3. The random flight of the gazelle ; 4. How the zebra got its stripes -- Part II. The mysteries of animal behaviour. 5. The air-conditioning of the termite mound ; 6. The impala's Mexican waves ; 7. Elephant dictatorship vs buffalo democracy ; 8. The antelope art of sexual manipulation -- Part III. Extraordinary creatures. 9. Dung beetle navigation ; 10. Seismic signalling in the elephants' sound-world ; 11. Honey badger : weapon of mass destruction ; 12. The truth about The lion king -- Part IV. The human factor. 13. How to turn a lion into a cub-killer ; 14. Catastrophic change ; 15. Human evolution and its impact -- Epilogue: The zebras and me
ER  -