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.

Monday, 31 August 2026

Blue-grey Tanager. Colombia 2025

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Every day fresh, ripe bananas are put on a feeder along the fence line of the garden by the owner of Kumanday Lodge which is situated on the...
Saturday, 29 August 2026

The Smooth Snake. New Research: Now Venomous but still Harmless

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The ‘third’ British snake, the Smooth Snake ( Coronella austriaca ), is one I have never seen. Of limited distribution, heathland in parts o...
Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Purple-throated Woodstar. Colombia - November 2025

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This female Purple-throated Woodstar ( Philodice mitchellii ) was gathering nectar from the flowers in the garden of the Hotel Kumanday on t...
Saturday, 8 August 2026

Western Bluebird: 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...
Wednesday, 5 August 2026

A Comma in the garden

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Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. 1 August 2026 It is difficult to imagine the look on a 1950s lepidopterist’s face had she or he been told a Com...
Monday, 27 July 2026

John Anderson’s Newt on the Road from Mandalay

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The first of what are now known as crocodile newts to be described in the scientific literature was Tylotriton verrucosus from Yunnan Provi...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Lord Derby’s Woolly Opossum. Colombia, November 2025

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I find the marsupials of the Americas fascinating. The opossums with their long rat-like tails cannot compete in the cuteness stakes with th...
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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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