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, 26 October 2014

Here’s a Pretty How-De-Do: W.S. Gilbert (but not Sullivan) and his Menagerie, with Lemurs to the Fore

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I often think it's comical – Fal, lal, la!  How Nature always does contrive – Fal, lal, la!  That every boy and every gal  That’s...
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Friday, 10 October 2014

Nutrition, Exercise and Survival in an Extreme Environment: Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Evans of the Antarctic in 1911-191

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As a result of my blog posts on the search for Emperor Penguin eggs that continued for decades in the 20th Century, I have been reading more...
Thursday, 9 October 2014

Russet Percher Dragonfly (Hong Kong)

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Number 2 son sent me this photograph taken in Sai Kung Country Park, Hong Kong on Sunday. It is a Russet Percher (aka Fulvous Forst Skimmer ...
Saturday, 4 October 2014

Curl-Crested Manucode: Seen and Heard

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Curl-crested Manucode by William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) for John Gould's Birds of New Guinea (National Library of Australia) Satur...
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...
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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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