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.

Sunday, 11 October 2026

Hong Kong: Not just a Cobra—a King Cobra

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AJP went for a walk up Tai Mo Shan four days ago. He saw this snake in the grass from a long way away because its scales were reflecting the...
Friday, 9 October 2026

Huang’s Rat. There was no Mr Huang, Mrs Huang, Miss Huang or Master Huang. Back to Mr Bonhote

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I was reminded that I should write this article by the reprinting of recollections in the Rodentia* Newsletter (No. 7, Summer 2026). The edi...
Sunday, 4 October 2026

Equatorial Antpitta in the Colombian Andes

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A pair of Equatorial Antpittas can be bribed with mealworms to appear at Hacienda El Bosque, a popular birding lodge at an altitude 11,000 f...
Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Grey-tailed Tattler: en route from Siberia to Australia with a stopover in Hong Kong

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On the mudflats of Siu Hau on Lantau island AJP saw this Grey-tailed Tattler ( Tringa brevipes ). In autumn they leave their breeding ground...
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Willoughby Lowe (1872-1949). Collector of specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. Part Six: 1912-13 - East Africa, the Cosens Expedition

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Willoughby Lowe (1872-1949) was a highly-praised collector for the Natural History Museum in London as well as an all-round naturalist. Coun...
Friday, 25 September 2026

Alala Sister: An Andean Butterfly in Colombia

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This butterfly was on the track through the OtĂșn Quimbaya reserve on the western side of the Cordillera Central of Colombia. The Alala Siste...
Thursday, 17 September 2026

Far Eastern Curlew: Endangered species on passage in Hong Kong

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Two days ago AJP spotted this Far Eastern Curlew ( Numenius madagascariensis ) on the tidal flats of Shiu Hau, a village on the south coast ...
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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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