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, 17 May 2018

Diane McTurk (1932-2016): The ‘Otter Lady’ of Guyana

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Diane McTurk with two of her otters. From Wilderness Explorers , the ground agents for many wildlife tours in Guyana The death in Guyana...
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Friday, 11 May 2018

Alpha Helix: a floating laboratory for comparative physiology in the 1960s and 70s. What happened to her?

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Anybody reading papers on how animals work from the 1960s and 70s cannot fail to notice that much of the work on certain topics, Bill Dunson...
Tuesday, 8 May 2018

An exotic day out for Sheffield zoology students - 1930s style

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Also in the 1930s the first university students were admitted in groups, with a lecturer, at a reduced rate. At this time, for instance, th...
Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Achatina Snail: An invasive species in Hong Kong 2. My fruitless hunt for steroid hormones

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In my last post, I mentioned that the accidentally introduced giant snail, Achatina, was very common in the gardens of the University of Hon...

Achatina Snail: An invasive species in Hong Kong 1. History

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The first animals I saw on arriving in Hong Kong on a dark November night in 1965 were giant snails, Achatina or Lissachatina fulica . They...
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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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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