Zoology Jottings

Zoology has a discipline: evolution; zoology is vertically integrated, concerned with biological organisation at the level of organisms in their environment, organs, tissues, cells and molecules. This blog meanders through the animal kingdom, from aardvarks and anoles, through mouse and man, to zorillas and zebras.

Monday, 30 June 2025

Black-throated Magpie-Jay in Mexico—Surgeon Collie’s Bird of HMS Blossom

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  We spotted this Black-throated Magpie-Jay ( Cyanocorax colliei ) in the late afternoon in Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast of Mexico i...
Friday, 27 June 2025

‘Perpetuating a mischief’: Sharpey-Schafer’s Classic Histology Textbook Displaced by Evelyn Hewer’s

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It is 1959. The two of us starting ‘A’ level Zoology that year really thought we had had started playing with the big boys. Instead of the e...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Citreoline Trogon: a bird endemic to western Mexico

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Citreoline Trogon 1 February 2025, El Jorullo, Jalisco, Mexico We saw this Citreoline Trogon after walking across the 470 metre long suspens...
Sunday, 15 June 2025

Comparative Endocrinology Revisited: Hellbenders, Giant Salamanders and their hormones

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Hellbender from the Appalachian Mountains Brian Gratwicke Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic In a recent article I mentioned that ther...
Friday, 30 May 2025

Crocodiles and Birds at the Mirador de las Aves near San Blas in Mexico

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We have seen lots of crocodilians in the wild but rarely doing anything but sunning themselves or just lying in the water. When we pulled in...
Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Animals of the Namib Desert. The South African Zoologist Who Worked Out How They Survive On the Foggy Foggy Dew

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Last month we had a very brief visit, counted in minutes not hours, to Stellenbosch in South Africa. A few days later we were visiting Namib...
Thursday, 22 May 2025

Roseate Spoonbills Feeding in Mexico

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  Roseate Spoonbills ( Platalea ajaja ) were feeding in a roadside lagoon near San Blas on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in early February. Ha...
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Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, Malcolm Peaker is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of Sheffield (BSc, DSc) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD, Hon. DSc), he was Director of the Hannah Research Institute and Hannah Professor in the University of Glasgow, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Chairman of the, British Nutrition Foundation and a member of the Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Advisory Committee.
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