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.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Chinchilla Rat Extant not Extinct

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In an error-strewn article The Guardian (not my favourite newspaper) carried the report on Friday that Cuscomys oblativa , a chinchilla rat...

Genomes show why Hooded and Carrion Crows are different and stay different…and are they different species?

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Over the years, as an outsider to the field, I have read about taxonomy and systematics and I have read about different species concepts and...
Thursday, 18 September 2014

Sitatunga in the Congo Basin

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I like antelope. While the tourist safari buses search out lions I look at the antelope, from the ones you can’t miss on the plains to the s...
Friday, 12 September 2014

Ebola: Gorillas and other wild animals

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Female gorilla in the Jupiter Group Ngaga Camp, Republic of Congo, May 2014 Her toddler was clambering in the trees above her The conver...
Thursday, 11 September 2014

Zoology: India gets it wrong again

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You really could not make it up. I read in Science (15 August 2014): India bans dissections A campaign to bar dissections in India...
Monday, 8 September 2014

Alfred Leutscher, Wood Mice and the Devil’s Hoofmarks

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I have been writing about Alfred Leutscher in one of my other blogs that is covering at the moment the post-war books on the keeping of rept...
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...
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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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