Monday, 4 February 2013

Hong Kong Mammals

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The casual visitor to Hong Kong has no idea of the extensive areas of countryside still present in this conurbation, nor, indeed of the bio...
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...
Thursday, 17 January 2013

Who referees the referees?

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Occasionally, but too often, I see a paper that has been really badly refereed. The referees (and of course the author(s)) could have had no...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Polynesian Ground-Dove: Alive but Critically Endangered

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The Polynesian Ground-Dove ( Gallicolumba erythroptera ), thanks to the spread of the Black and Polynesian rats, domestic cats and loss of ...
Saturday, 27 October 2012

Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1915: 2. John C Dendy

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In the last post I described what I had found on Albert L de Lautreppe. This week, it is the turn of John C Dendy. This is what Clin Keeli...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1915: 1. Albert L de Lautreppe

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Clinton Keeling (1932-2007) in the later years of his life published a number of his own books on the history of zoos and the keeping of wi...
Friday, 5 October 2012

Tubenoses and Salt Glands: Up to a Point Mr Packham

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Chris Packham, in BBC’s Springwatch Guide to Sea Birds , discussed the tubular extensions to the nostrils of petrels (Procellariiformes). H...