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.

Friday, 29 May 2026

Night Monkeys in Colombia

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Grey-legged Night Monkeys, Aotus griseimembra La Camelia, Victoria, Caldes, Colombia. November 2025 We saw three currently-recognised specie...
Saturday, 23 May 2026

The ‘Alligator Ladies’ of Hammersmith and Chertsey. Who they were and what came next

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This article is a follow up to two I posted in 2022: STRANGE CARGO, the 1952 film: 'Riding the Alligator' and' Hatching the Tort...
Thursday, 21 May 2026

Hong Kong Buntings

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Hong Kong has a large number of species of bunting (Emberizidae) during the winter and as passage migrants in spring and autumn. They vary f...
Monday, 18 May 2026

Desert Journal by Raymond Bridgman Cowles. A good read from 1977

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I have enjoyed reading Desert Journal. Reflections of a Naturalist which was written by Raymond Cowles (1896-1975) and published shortly af...
Thursday, 14 May 2026

Common Asian Toads: a February start to breeding in Hong Kong

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February is the start of the breeding season for the commonest amphibian in Hong Kong, the Common Asian Toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus . A...
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Cauca Guan. What a corker!

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  Cauca Guan Cauca Guans ( Penelope perspicax ) were common as we drove and walked along the road through the OtĂșn Quimbaya Fauna and Flora ...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

Turtles or Terrapins - a surprising usage

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For common names in chelonians we have a situation in that a common name used in the USA. a bastardised version of an Algonqiuin word, came ...
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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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