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 Parturution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parturution. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 July 2018

Why do Wildebeest in the Serengeti-Mara calve over a short period? New evidence

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Tightly synchronised reproduction in mammals is a phenomenon I have discussed previously in this blog . One of the prime examples is the Whi...
Saturday, 11 January 2014

What Triggers Birth in Mammals?

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I was reminded of my post from 31 August 2013 on the length of pregnancy and on animals which synchronise the onset of parturition when I re...
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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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