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.

Tuesday, 6 January 2026

A bathroom lizard in Colombia. But which lizard? Learning about Alopoglossus

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‘I’ve just found this in the bathroom’ is not an unusual cry in tropical wildlife lodges. This time my wife was clutching her hands together...
Saturday, 3 January 2026

Which descendant of Richard Owen, great anatomist, royal favourite and wrong’un, worked at the University of Hong Kong in 1957-60?

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Richard Owen Richard Owen (1804-1892) the brilliant comparative anatomist but odious man was a celebrity of the Victorian era. But more than...
Friday, 19 December 2025

The White Dragontail. A butterfly in Hong Kong

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AJP saw about a dozen of these butterflies around a big bush in Tai Po Kau last week. They are White Dragontails ( Lamproptera curius ), a s...
Thursday, 18 December 2025

Python eats pig. But how does the python cope with all the calcium in the pig’s bones? A new study discovers an entirely new mechanism and a new type of intestinal cell

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During the 1990s the Burmese Python ( Python bivittatus ) hit the headlines because of research done by Stephen Secor and Jared Diamond in L...
Sunday, 30 November 2025

Mexico 2025: A Potoo or Two

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Returning in the dark from a boat trip along the Rio La Tovara near San Blas on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, there were lots of snags—dead o...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Humpback Whales: the full behavioural works off Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

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What sort of whale watching were we in for we wondered when we landed at Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. We went out into Ba...
Sunday, 26 October 2025

A band of White-nosed Coatis in Mexico

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Shortly after crossing the 470 metre long suspension bridge at El Jorullo a few miles inland from Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast of Me...
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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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