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, 19 August 2025

I could tell you what this ‘paper’ says—but I won’t. A blot on modern science practice

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The gold standard in science is still the publication of a paper in a respected journal that passes the scrutiny of other scientists in the ...
Wednesday, 13 August 2025

Lineated Woodpecker. Mexico 2025

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This Lineated Woidpecker ( Dryocopus lineatus )—a female—was in the village of Singayta, a short distance inland from San Blas on the Pacifi...
Monday, 11 August 2025

Willoughby Lowe (1872-1949). Collector of specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. Part One: Early Life in England and Farming in Colorado

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In previous articles ( here ) I have touched on the life of Willoughby Lowe (1872-1949), a highly-praised collector in many parts of the wor...
Friday, 25 July 2025

Golden-cheeked Woodpecker—spotted in Mexico

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  We saw several Golden-cheeked Woodpeckers ( Melanerpes chrysogenys ) while we were in Mexico in February. This one is a male and was photo...
Monday, 14 July 2025

Snakes, Drugs and Rock ’N’ Roll. My Early Years. Romulus Whitaker with Janaki Lenin. HarperCollins, India. 2024

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  I first heard of Rom Whitaker in the late 1970s. He was in process of becoming established as the mover and shaker in the study and conser...
Monday, 30 June 2025

Black-throated Magpie-Jay in Mexico—Surgeon Collie’s Bird of HMS Blossom

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  We spotted this Black-throated Magpie-Jay ( Cyanocorax colliei ) in the late afternoon in Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast of Mexico i...
Friday, 27 June 2025

‘Perpetuating a mischief’: Sharpey-Schafer’s Classic Histology Textbook Displaced by Evelyn Hewer’s

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It is 1959. The two of us starting ‘A’ level Zoology that year really thought we had had started playing with the big boys. Instead of the e...
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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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