Tuesday, 2 February 2016

The Puff Adder is not a Phew Adder: The case of the odourless snake

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Writing about olfaction in English is complicated by the fact that the verb smell is both transitive and intransitive. So, if we say a snak...
Monday, 1 February 2016

Pigs: East meets West

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I have never worked on or with pigs, other than trying to prepare tissue slices from a piece of fresh mammary tissue which was as tough as ...
Tuesday, 26 January 2016

African Wild Dogs: an energetics spat

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As we were watching a Tasmanian Devil working its way through piles of chicken meat placed along the length of the verandah of our cabin at...
Monday, 18 January 2016

Pardalote. Spots before the eyes

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It should have been obvious as we flicked through the book on Australian birds for the first time in 17 years. But it wasn’t. ‘It’s back to ...
Thursday, 14 January 2016

Sightings of Thylacines: a Tasmanian coincidence

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‘Just keep an eye out for the odd thylacine’, I reminded my wife as we travelled through Tasmania in November, ‘You gained your spurs as a ...
Sunday, 8 November 2015

The Frog and Parrot, or Dendrobates tinctorius and Amazona spp.

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Dendrobates tinctorius - a form from French Guiana No, not the name of a pub but a note about Dendrobates tinctorius , the Dyeing Pois...
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...