Thursday, 1 March 2018

J.D. Romer, Hong Kong herpetologist, and the founding of the British Herpetological Society

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J.D Romer handling Wagler's Pit Viper at the Snake Temple in Penang, September 1950. ( Aquarist , October 1951) John Romer (1920-198...
Monday, 26 February 2018

On the Tibetan Plateau, November 2017: Gazelles and Blue Sheep

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Tibetan Gazelles ( Procapra picticaudata ) inhabit the Tibetan Plateau of China, with just a few occurring in India. It was a species I was ...
Sunday, 25 February 2018

Chapman Pincher, reds-under-the-bed journalist of the Daily Express and his earlier foray into writing about fish

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Pincher's Autobiography To keep my academic interests in trim, in 1947 I published A Study of Fishes, a book intended mainly for angle...
Thursday, 22 February 2018

Who was the photographer, Walter S. Pitt?

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In my last post I showed a photograph by W.S. Pitt from Smith’s The British Amphibians and Reptiles , first published in 1951. Pitt produced...
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Grass Snakes: How good science turned into fake news

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Last year new research suggested that the European Grass Snake, Natrix natrix , should be split into two species. The split removed Natrix h...
Monday, 19 February 2018

Pika or Pika. You say to-mate-o: I say to-maht-o

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I used to pronounce pika, peeka, but then began to wonder since half the world seemed to be saying pike-a. I read that the word was first ...
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Thursday, 15 February 2018

If we had seen Chinese Mountain Cats, what are these?

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When I was looking up photographs of Chinese Mountain Cats before and after travelling to Sichuan last November, I was puzzled. A number of ...