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, 28 October 2015

Galapagos Marine Iguana: Genes and Islands

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The Galapagos never cease to fascinate. New discoveries are being made all the time on the animals that live there and how they have evolve...
Friday, 23 October 2015

Hedgehog Oil

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Hedgehogs ( Erinaceus europaeus ) are said to be getting less common in Britain—hardly surprising news given the increase in the human popu...
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Tuesday, 6 October 2015

The great fall of migrants on the Suffolk coast in September 1965; we were there

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Male Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) photographed in Moscow (from Wikipedia**) Last month marked the 50th anniversary of a remarkable wil...
Friday, 25 September 2015

How do hummingbirds drink nectar? And what about sunbirds?

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The recent paper Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps published in Proceedings of the Royal Society ‡ has attracted attention in ne...
Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Found on a Hong Kong beach: What lifeforms are these?

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AJP reports finding lots of these on the beach on the island of Po Toi last Sunday (a favourite place for birdwatchers since it is a major p...
Monday, 21 September 2015

Hong Kong 70 Years Ago: Herklots the biologist; North the civil servant

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The website Gwulo: Old Hong Kong is superb. Those who have followed the daily updates that show entries from the diaries written by intern...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Roger Akester (1922-2015) Avian Functional Anatomist

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I was sad to see the death announced today in The Times of Roger Akester (Arthur Roger Akester), aged 92, on 29 August in Cambridge. Roge...
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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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