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, 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...
Friday, 17 October 2025

Herons in the Mangroves: Mexico in February

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Rio La Tovara near San Blas on the Pacific Coast of Mexico On our last day before leaving Mexico we had a boat trip at 4 pm which took us fr...
Monday, 13 October 2025

A Good Summer for Garden Butterflies

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 Small Copper  Lycaena phlaeas Painted Lady  Vanessa cardui Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta The stars of the...
Thursday, 9 October 2025

Life at the Top 3: Southern Rock Hyrax on Table Mountain, South Africa. Life on the Edge

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Tourists on Table Mountain may miss the mammalian interest simply because they spend so much time looking at the views that they forget the ...
Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Grey [now Long-tailed] Sibia: a colour plate from 1937

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In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the appearance in...
Monday, 6 October 2025

Richardson’s Ground Squirrels: in the news and in excess

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Richardson's Ground Squirrel or Flickertail Minot, North Dakota 2023 In 2023 I described how we had seen the Flickertail or Richardson’s...
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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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