About the book: 2011 / Edouard Launay, a famous French journalist and popularizer of science, talks in his fascinating book, full of good humor and subtle parallels, about some recent discoveries of zoologists. Lone invites the reader to take an excursion into the wonderful world where drunkard elephants, hypertensive giraffes, truly British fleas, freedom-loving flies and other equally cute creatures live, sometimes very similar to people.