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How the Zebra Got its Stripes

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

How the Zebra Got its Stripes

By Leo Grasset

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About the book

Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? What explains the architectural brilliance of the termite mound or the complications of the hyena's sex life? And why have honey-badgers evolved to be one of nature's most efficient agents of mass destruction? Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations on the African savannah, Leo Grasset offers some answers to these and man...Show more

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9781781256282

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2016

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How the Zebra Got its Stripes

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Hardcover

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