The stories of Pippi the chimpanzee, of the elephants Sofia and Lakshmi, but also of the lioness Jade or Jasmine, the Bengal tiger. In the background the Biopark of Rome and to tell the “riddles of nature” from a privileged and magnificent point of view is Louis Epomycene, who is the general manager of the Bioparco. ‘Is it all a coincidence?’ the volume published by Harpo editor, which through the author’s personal life episodes promises to explain in simple language aspects and phenomena of nature and evolution complex and less known to most. A story made up of jumps from one topic to another, but always with a logical thread that you will discover as you read on. A book born to “accompany the reader on a journey of curiosities and wonders, on which we can only make assumptions”.
Epomycene – childhood and adolescence in New York, with studies in Monetary Economics and Business Management – after 30 years spent managing companies belonging to the largest multinational groups, he had “the privilege of seeing Nature from an unusual point of view” at first as Dg of WWF Italy and now as director general of Bioparco in Rome.