How The Zebra Got Its Stripes

Author : Léo Grasset
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681774763
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology written by Léo Grasset and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France’s brightest young scientist lucidly explains the intricacies of the animal kingdom through the lens of evolutionary biology. Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function like the male's penis? Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations in Africa, Léo Grasset offers answers to these questions and many more in a book of post-Darwinian. Complex natural phenomena are explained in simple and at times comic terms, as Grasset turns evolutionary biology to the burning questions of the animal kingdom, from why elephants prefer dictators and buffaloes democracies, to whether the lion really is king. The human is, of course, just another animal, and the author's exploration of two million years of human evolution shows how it not only informs our current habits and behavior, but also reveals that we are hybrids of several different species. Prepare to be fascinated, shocked, and delighted, as well as reliably advised—by the end, you will know to never hug the beautiful, cuddly honey badger, and what explains its almost psychotic nastiness. This is serious science at its entertaining best.

Author : Golden Books
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0307988708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Zebra Got Its Stripes written by Golden Books and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a group of African animals hang out at the local watering hole, they share funny stories about how the zebra got its stripes. At the end of the book, fun facts explain why zebras really have stripes. For any child intrigued by zebras, this colorful, informative book is a must!

Author : Tim Caro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641101X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zebra Stripes written by Tim Caro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.

Author : Léo Grasset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781256282
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Zebra Got Its Stripes written by Léo Grasset and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Léo Grasset offers some answers to these and many other intriguing questions. Having shown that natural phenomena are rarely simple and that often they get more complex the more you look at them, he brings to bear a mix of evolutionary biology and lateral thinking to explain the mysteries of animal behaviour in terms that are simple but never simplifying. He ends by considering how our origins in the savannah and evolution as the hybrid of several species can shapes our habits.Léo Grasset is one of France's brightest young natural scientists. Prepare to be fascinated, delighted, surprised, shocked and, above all, entertained by his brilliantly original Darwinian Just So stories.

Author : Lesley Sims
Publisher : Usborne Books
ISBN 13 : 9780794525255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Zebras Got Their Stripes written by Lesley Sims and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is based on an old folktalke from Namibia in Africa. The story explains how the very first Zebra got it's stripes.

Author : Stephen R. Swinburne
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635924936
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes written by Stephen R. Swinburne and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a simple text and vivid full-color photographs, Stephen R. Swinburne shows children a wide range of nature's exquisite designs. He invites children to open their eyes and look for patterns in water and on land, in the air and on the ground, and in their own neighborhoods. They will see the world as they've never seen it before.

Author : Jedda Robaard
Publisher : Gardner Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781760406653
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Zebra Who Lost His Stripes written by Jedda Robaard and published by Gardner Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Zebra is having a very odd day. Can you help him search for his stripes? ‚With interactive lift-the-flap pages and gorgeous illustrations by Jedda Robaard, join Little Zebra on his adventures as he hunts for his missing stripes.

Author : John Reitano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0809166496
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What If the Zebras Lost Their Stripes? written by John Reitano and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the zebras lost their stripes and became different from one another, some white and some black, would they turn and fight each other and stop living life as loving friends?.

Author : Juliette Winningham
Publisher : Bruno's Amazing Adventures
ISBN 13 : 9781734770186
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can a Zebra Change Its Stripes? written by Juliette Winningham and published by Bruno's Amazing Adventures. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coated in wonderful stripes of black and white, Mary the zebra often spent her mornings munching on Serengeti grass with her family. One morning, an unfamiliar face trotted over the hill by her field. Join Mary and her friends as they uncover the importance of acceptance and what it means to make diversity our strength.

Author : Shaina Rudolph
Publisher : American Psychological Association
ISBN 13 : 143381918X
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All My Stripes written by Shaina Rudolph and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Zane, a zebra with autism who worries that his differences make him stand out from his peers. With careful guidance from his mother, Zane learns that autism is only one of many qualities that make him special. Contains a “Note to Parents” by Drew Coman, PhD, and Ellen Braaten, PhD, as well as a Foreword by Alison Singer, President of the Autism Science Foundation.