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.

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...
Sunday, 5 October 2025

Iguanas: Two Species. Western Mexico January-February 2025

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Heading out of the marina at Puerto Vallarta for two spectacular whale-watching trips, lizards above and below the boat's gunwhales attr...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Willoughby Lowe (1872-1949). Collector of specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. Part Four: 1909—A live Monkey-eating Eagle from the Philippines

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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...
Monday, 29 September 2025

Willoughby Lowe (1872-1949). Collector of specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. Part Three: In the Philippines on his first collecting trip with John Roberts White

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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...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Willoughby Lowe (1872-1949). Collector of specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. Part Two: To the Philippines; his first collecting trip with a sea snake spectacular on the way there

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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...
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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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