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.

Friday, 22 March 2013

Hong Kong Naturalist: Who Was Roy A Pereira?

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In my note on tigers in Hong Kong, I mentioned the report by R.A. Pereira. Pereira wrote a number of articles in Hong Kong Naturalist betw...
Saturday, 16 March 2013

Fructose

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The proposed deleterious effects of fructose and, therefore, sucrose (which is broken down in the gut to produce glucose and fructose) in t...
Friday, 8 March 2013

Whose Genes Are In My Chinchilla?

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We are a family of rodentophiles. The current family champion in this pursuit is #2 son, who, for the past ten years, has kept chinchillas,...
Monday, 4 March 2013

A Hong Kong Tiger. A Reminder of What Has Been Lost

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Searching for something else, I came across this account of a tiger in the New Territories of Hong Kong in 1934-1935. I first became awa...
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...
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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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