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, 31 January 2018

Plateau Pika, O. curzoniae. Who was Mrs Curzon? I think I have found out

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In 1858 Brian Houghton Hodgson (FRS 1877) gave the pika he first described and I wrote about in my last post, and now known to be a keyst...
Monday, 29 January 2018

A morning on the Tibetan Plateau in Sichuan: 2. Plateau Pika - another fluffy animal

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The Plateau or Black-lipped Pika, Ochotona curzoniae is an animal of, and confined to, the Tibetan Plateau. Ecologists have it marked as a ...
Saturday, 27 January 2018

A morning on the Tibetan Plateau in Sichuan: 1. Pallas’s Cat - a seriously fluffy cat on video

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Last November, we had a great morning of wildlife on the grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau north of Ruoergai in Sichuan. We arrived at the s...
Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Black Rats and black rats. Close encounters of different kinds

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A Black Rat in Sichuan The last wild mammal we saw before leaving in Sichuan in November was a Black Rat ( Rattus rattus ). It was moving ...
Thursday, 18 January 2018

Black Death and Black Rats. Not Fake news just NOT news

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Black Death 'spread by humans not rats’ . BBC News 15 January 2018 Maybe Rats Aren't to Blame for the Black Death . National Geogr...
Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Chinese Serow in the Wild

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Below is a link to my video of an immature male Chinese Serow in the wild taken during out trip to Sichuan in November. China has a number o...
Sunday, 14 January 2018

Confessions of a Hong Kong Naturalist by G.T. Reels. A new book

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A memoir of ten years surveying wildlife in the wetlands, forests and mountains of Hong Kong’s New Territories and offshore islands ...
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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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