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.

Thursday, 2 May 2013

What Happened to Hong Kong’s Huang’s Rat

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In Hong Kong in the 1960s there were two types of rat on the hillsides. In 2013 they are still there but their names have changed completel...
Friday, 12 April 2013

Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1915: 4. Harold Duncan Foster

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The first example of an amateur reptile keeper I have found so far from the list given by Clin Keeling of those individuals who donated spec...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1915: 3. Guy Aylmer

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Following up this series of posts, this is what Clin Keeling wrote in A Short History of British Reptile Keeping : It's 8th August ...
Friday, 5 April 2013

Henderson Island Rats: nil desperandum

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One of the most disappointing pieces of news this year came from the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). The massive internati...
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,...
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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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