How the Snake Lost Its Legs the butterfly, the snake, and the cheetah. Each consists of three to eight sections named in the style of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories", with titles like "How the butterfly got its spots" or "How the snake elongated its body", though a couple of sections use "Why?" rather than "How?", as in "Why the fly twirls his penis" (it rotates during embryonic development under the control of different genes). In these chapters, Held explains the mechanics of evolutionary developmental biology, complete with accounts of what genes such as hox, hedgehog, and engrailed do to shape bodies. The third part is
Leopard of the Yelagiri Hills Leopard of the Yelagiri Hills The Leopard of the Yelagiri Hills was a man eating Indian Leopard which claimed three victims in the vicinity of the Yelagiris, a crescent formation of hills east of the Jolarpet Junction railway on the Southern Railway. It was killed by Kenneth Anderson, who described it as thus; The leopard originally limited itself to killing the cows of a herdsman named Nathan, who, over a three-month period, lost four of his animals to the beast. Two other herdsman in his village lost a couple each. When the monsoon season arrived, the cattle were transferred into