Thursday, 19 September 2013

Who was Marples, B.J. (1932)?

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Twenty-five years before Knut Schmidt-Nielsen discovered salt glands in birds, the structure and development of the nasal or supraorbital g...
Monday, 16 September 2013

BBC: Losing the Plot

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Last year I met somebody who had worked at the BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. I enquired how a producer with whom I had worked on a...
Saturday, 31 August 2013

Human Pregnancy: Gestation Period Variation Compared with Nanny Goats

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One of the stories running during this year’s ‘silly season’, when news media are desperately trying to fill newspapers, radio, television ...
Monday, 12 August 2013

The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians: Where’s Conrau?

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Starting in 2003 with Whose Bird? , the Eponym Dictionary series (mammals following birds, then reptiles and, this year amphibians † ) has ...
Friday, 2 August 2013

Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1914/15: 9. C.R. Walker and Mons. de Southoff

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I reach the end of this series of posts with failure. I have been unable to find any more information on two donors. This is what Clin Keel...
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...