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.

Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 September 2019

Ludwig Glauert. From Sheffield to the Extinct and Extant Fauna of Western Australia

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Ludwig Glauert (National Library of Australia) Ludwig Glauert was, I discovered when in The Kimberley of Western Australia, a kingpin ...
Friday, 26 October 2018

The Kimberley, Australia: A Robert Mertens Day

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In the early 1960s, the name Robert Mertens (1894-1975) was well-known to anybody in Britain keen on reptiles because the translation of ...
Saturday, 8 September 2018

Crimson Finch - a beautiful Australian bird

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I couldn’t resist taking video of Crimson Finches while birdwatching along the edge of Lily Creek Lagoon in Kununnura, on the eastern edge ...
Monday, 18 January 2016

Pardalote. Spots before the eyes

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It should have been obvious as we flicked through the book on Australian birds for the first time in 17 years. But it wasn’t. ‘It’s back to ...
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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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