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.

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Rovinj Marine Biological Laboratory in 1964. Part One

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A SECOND PART has been added on 11 August 2020. It can be found HERE . ---------------- A marine biology field trip was part of every zo...
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Thursday, 7 May 2015

Asiatic Lions: A Conservation Success Story

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If, like me, you were under the impression that the Asiatic or Indian Lion was confined to overgrazed degraded habitat with its only strong...
Monday, 4 May 2015

Parakeets vs Rat Snake: A Remarkable Encounter in the Gir Forest of Gujarat

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The first of a short series on our trip around the national parks and sanctuaries of Gujarat with Naturetrek. We came across this remarkable...
Sunday, 26 April 2015

Tropical Fish Transport in 1951 Avro York

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Interest in fish-keeping has waxed and waned since the middle of the 19th Century. The trade in livestock and supplies this century is enor...
Thursday, 23 April 2015

Aquarists and Fish-keeping in the 20th Century. Part 5: Charles Schiller

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This article from the Golden Jubilee (October 1974) edition of The Aquarist and Pondkeeper by Paul William Charles de Zille Schiller (1906...
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Friday, 27 March 2015

Aquarists and Fish-keeping in the 20th Century. Part 4: Eric Hardy

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This article from the Golden Jubilee (October 1974) edition of The Aquarist and Pondkeeper by Eric Hardy (1912-2002) covers the activities...

Aquarists and Fish-keeping in the 20th Century. Part 3: Morris Davall Cluse

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This third article from the Golden Jubilee edition of The Aquarist and Pondkeeper is by M.D. Cluse. Morris Davall Cluse was born in Isling...
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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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