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.

Tuesday, 14 August 2018

70 Years on: the Platinum Anniversary of the Solution to Milk Ejection by the Mammary Gland. Part 2: James Lincoln Linzell

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Jim Linzell, June 1974 Photographed at Babraham by Alec Bangham It was in May 1948 that Jim Linzell (1921-1975) realised he had, j...
Thursday, 9 August 2018

70 Years on: the Platinum Anniversary of the Solution to Milk Ejection by the Mammary Gland. Part 1: Keith Clifford Richardson

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Seventy years ago, the final bricks were being put in place that established the milk ejection reflex, a classic neuro-endocrine pathway. A...
Tuesday, 7 August 2018

Carry on Cleo. Two unusual glands: the mammary gland and the snake venom gland

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I usually try to avoid writing about mammary glands and lactation since I have been doing that for nearly fifty years. However, I cannot re...
Thursday, 2 August 2018

Ronald Strahan: Zoologist in 1950s Hong Kong

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When I was writing about A.J. (‘Jock’) Marshall I found that he had visited Hong Kong in 1957 and that he had some correspondence with a ‘D...
Thursday, 26 July 2018

Why do Wildebeest in the Serengeti-Mara calve over a short period? New evidence

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Tightly synchronised reproduction in mammals is a phenomenon I have discussed previously in this blog . One of the prime examples is the Whi...
Monday, 16 July 2018

Hong Kong Porcupine Safari...A Bonus Snake

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Our Hong Kong correspondent took some friends to his favourite spot on Hong Kong Island to view porcupines. Yes, the porcupines showed up as...
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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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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