How the zebra got its stripes: Darwinian stories told through evolutionary biology

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.