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 behaviour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label behaviour. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 January 2020

The Curious Case of Climbing Newts

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My eye was drawn to a post in the UK Amphibian and Reptile Groups Discussion Forum on Facebook which reported that as many as 50 Palmate Ne...
Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Golden Hamsters in the wild are diurnal but in captivity are nocturnal. Do we know why?

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in a previous article about Golden Hamsters, I wrote After Rolf Gattermann’s death from cancer in 2006 at the age of 57, his team of c...
Wednesday, 23 January 2013

A Tree Skink (Lipinia vittigera) Waves its Tail

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Archaeological sites are often good places to see reptiles and birds. Although Angkor Thom and Angor Wat in Cambodia were disappointing in t...
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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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