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.

Thursday, 26 April 2018

What sort of thinkers are today’s zoologists?

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Bob Martin in 2013 at the Field Museum Photograph by Yu Lao (Wikimedia Commons) Some essays stand the test of time. One such is that wri...
Sunday, 22 April 2018

The Complicated History of Monkeys in Hong Kong

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There are monkeys in Hong Kong. Forget Hong Kong Island for the time being—in the first part of this article I am concentrating on ‘New’ Kow...
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Monday, 16 April 2018

Huxley v Wilberforce. How a provincial newspaper reported the Oxford debate of 1860

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Any sense of achievement gained from doing a job once done by Thomas Henry Huxley—Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London—is at o...
Friday, 13 April 2018

Spring in Hong Kong: Brown Tree Frog

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April is the height of the breeding season for many Hong Kong amphibians. Our correspondent found this Brown Tree Frog ( Polypedates megacep...
Monday, 9 April 2018

Time to kill off the term ‘brumation’ for hibernation in reptiles

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Amateur herpetology circles and zoo keepers tend to obsess over using the term ‘brumation’ instead of hibernation for what reptiles and amph...
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Saturday, 7 April 2018

Two jaguars on a quiet river in the Brazilian Pantanal

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We set off before dawn from South Wild on the banks of the Pixaim River. This time, in contrast to previous days, we were being paddled alon...
Thursday, 5 April 2018

Oldfield Thomas. Mammalogist and Valetudinarian

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This story does not end well.  In my previous post on Chinese species of pika I mentioned that Thomas’s Pika ( Ochotona thomasi ) had firs...
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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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