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.

Saturday, 29 June 2019

Feathers Fly in London. Why on earth was Chalmers Mitchell of London Zoo on the wrong side of a conservation battle of the early 1900s?

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Peter Chalmers Mitchell I have never been able to make up my mind about Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell FRS (1864-1945). At the Zoologica...
Thursday, 27 June 2019

Galapagos Marine Iguanas in Zoos

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I put some videos I had taken of Galapagos Marine Iguanas ( Amblyrhynchus cristatus ) on YouTube in 2012. I then had a number of requests f...
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Saturday, 22 June 2019

Frog Hearts and University Politics in 1950s London

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When writing about an article in the famous series, New Biology , published by Penguin between 1945 and 1960, I was reminded of another inf...
Sunday, 16 June 2019

How Birds Survive at Sea. The (incorrect) view from the 1930s in a popular article from a renowned ecologist

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Occasionally I see a paper or article that I wish had had seen earlier. This is one of them. Animal and Zoo Magazine , under its earlie...
Thursday, 13 June 2019

Hinge-backed Tortoises: Bushmeat and Snails

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I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. It had not entered my head that the hinge-backed tortoises of the West and Central African fore...
Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Animals Names: a Capital idea?

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In introducing the new edition of Clinton Keeling’s book, Where the Lion Trod , the editor made the point that Clin had a set of rules on n...
Sunday, 9 June 2019

Who was Dr J.A.C. Smith of his eponymous Chinese mammals? Update

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On 15 May I posted a draft of this article because I was trying to obtain a copy of a privately-published book by Margaret Johnson on Dr ...
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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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