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, 21 August 2014

Loch Doon for Ayrshire Ospreys—and butterflies and dragonflies

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We took he opportunity last week to drive 20 minutes from home to see the Ospreys at Loch Doon just in time to see the second of the two chi...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Alfred at Bristol Zoo: What Sort of Gorilla Was He?

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When writing the previous post, I must confess to a degree of confusion as to the identity of Alfred, the famous gorilla at Bristol Zoo from...
Monday, 18 August 2014

A Visit to Gorillas in the Congo

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One of my earliest memories is of the first non-domestic animal I saw—a gorilla, ’Alfred’ at Bristol Zoo in summer 1946. The snapshot in my ...
Thursday, 7 August 2014

Garden Butterflies in Ayrshire

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Ayrshire sometimes delivers wildlife spectaculars; this week we had one in the garden. Sometimes, in good summers in North Britain we get a ...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Keeping Reptiles and Amphibians: Enthusing Young Zoologists

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Keeping reptiles and amphibians, small mammals and birds in captivity was the accepted way of finding out about animals and many professiona...
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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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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