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.

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Tuamotu Sandpiper — a Morning Encounter with an Endangered and Strange Bird

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There are some species of birds that have the appearance and behaviour of having been designed by a committee of civil servants. The mesite...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Tahiti - Introduced Birds - More Information

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Following up my account of Eastham Guild’s introduction of birds to Tahiti, I now have much more information plus an inconsistency. I fo...
Monday, 23 July 2012

Marine Iguana Lek

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We were in the Galapagos in January travelling on the motor yacht Cachalote as part of an excellent Naturetrek tour led by Darwin Alvarez...
Saturday, 14 July 2012

Ethiopia Video

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Naturetrek have taken my video footage I sent them of our late 2011 trip, The Best of Ethiopia plus the Bale Mountains Extension to see...
Monday, 2 July 2012

Howard Bern

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I was sorry to read that Howard Bern had died in January aged 91. Howard was probably the last survivor of the heyday of comparative endoc...
Sunday, 24 June 2012

Tahiti - Introduced Birds

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The islands of Polynesia are ecological disaster zones — from New Zealand in the west to Easter Island in the east and to the Hawaiian isl...
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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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