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.

Sunday, 25 August 2019

Bank Voles in the Garden

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This year, like last, we have Bank Voles in the garden. They can be spotted in the afternoon and early evening running between the shrubs an...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019

China in the early decades of the 20th century: Who was Major Pereira?

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When researching the Duke of Bedford’s Exploration and the Fenwick-Owen hunting/collecting trip to China a name kept cropping up: Major Per...
Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Salt glands and Sea Water: Duck Farming in 1960s Hong Kong and a Giant Petrel in Argentina

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Salt-glands enable many birds to drink saline waters and eat salt-rich invertebrate foods. A question that arises is the extent to which th...
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Tuesday, 30 July 2019

The Golden Takin: who, what and when

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In previous posts I have described collecting and game shooting trips into the mountains of central China from which specimens were sent to...
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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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