by Léo Grasset · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021219272
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«Le Coup de la girafe» is the popular science essay by Léo Grasset, published by Seuil in paperback (144 pages, in French).
From evolutionary biology, the book explains the giraffe's long neck, the zebra's stripes and other oddities of the African savanna: the ventilated mounds of termites, chance in the flight of gazelles, the social life of elephants and buffalo, dung beetles that navigate by the Milky Way and peculiarities of hyenas.
Published in 2015, it is part of Seuil's Science ouverte collection and is illustrated with photographs.
A work suitable for curious readers interested in evolutionary biology, nature and popular science.
