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, 28 March 2019

Stephens Island: Lyall’s Wren—Scientific Pride and Prejudice in Victorian London. The Buller-Rothschild Feud

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I had not done any homework for a circumnavigation of the south island of New Zealand. The reason I had not done so is simple. We were not ...
Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Buller’s Birds: Spotted in New Zealand

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Buller’s Albatross —Tick. Buller’s Shearwater —Tick. Buller’s or Black-billed Gull —Tick. In, and off the coast of, New Zealand it is e...
Friday, 22 March 2019

Galapagos Iguana Hybrids: What about their Salt Glands?

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Last week I gave a talk on salt glands to a local group. I remembered that I had not raised a question here that arises from the existence ...
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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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