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.

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Journal Prices: How Science and Science Funding Lose Out

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A few weeks ago a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA* hit the headlines † . It compared the cost of journa...
Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Abominable Snowman: Yetis from The Long Walk to Bear mtDNA

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The recent paper on genetic analysis of hair samples from possible unknown species, brought back memories of the hunt for the  ‘abominable s...
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Saturday, 12 July 2014

Forest Buffalo in the Republic of Congo. What Species Is That?

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Forest Buffalo Kurt Dundy at English Wikipedia As a detached but interested outsider looking in on the world of taxonomy and systematics...
Thursday, 3 July 2014

In Search of a Penguin’s Egg. Why?...What happened to Nelson Norman's 1959 embryos?

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Following on from my earlier posts of 8 April and 26 June, I have to make it clear that this is an interim account of what I have been able ...
Thursday, 26 June 2014

In Search of a Penguin’s Egg. Why?...Continued

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Since writing In Search of a Penguin’s Egg. Why? on 8 April, I have read more and more on antarctic exploration in order: first, to underst...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Forest Elephants in the Republic of Congo. What Species Were We Observing?

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Opportunities to see the animals of the central African rainforests do not come every day. So the privilege of being able to visit groups of...
Saturday, 7 June 2014

Sea Snakes: My Only Sighting

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My earlier Post on the survival of  sea snakes at sea reminded me that I have only seen sea snakes in the wild once, and that was while gent...
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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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