Sunday, 28 July 2013

ITV’s The Zoo: An Own Goal for The Zoo?

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ITV’s three-part television series on London and Whipsnade Zoos has just ended. It was, of course, as dumbed down and as superficial as one...
Friday, 28 June 2013

Biological Systems: Is Redundancy Redundant?

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The term redundancy is often used to describe two or more processes in biological systems that appear to do the same job. The term has bee...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1914/15: 8. Herbert Tomlin Pollitt

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Again, and nearing the end of this series of posts, this is what Clin Keeling wrote in A Short History of British Reptile Keeping : H....
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Blue Poison-Dart Frog: The Times Gets It All Wrong

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The Times really should check its sources and material before publication. Today’s edition has a short article that states: British sc...
Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1914/15: 7. Bernard Tucker and William Waldegrave

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Again, in this series of posts, this is what Clin Keeling wrote in A Short History of British Reptile Keeping : Mr. W.B. Tucker of Hill...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Birds and Light Pollution: Hong Kong at Night

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A correspondent in Hong Kong writes: If you are in the centre of Causeway Bay at the Sogo crossing around 9pm it is dark, but swallows are...
Thursday, 6 June 2013

Blackbirds and Light Pollution. A Man and his iPhone App at Dusk and Dawn

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Passers by may have thought it a little odd. It is not every day they see a man crouched under bushes in the garden at dusk clutching an ip...