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.

Friday, 22 November 2019

The Giant Salamander found in Hong Kong but not of Hong Kong in 1920

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Edward George Boulenger In my last post I described how Edward George Boulenger (1888-1946), Curator of Reptiles and then of the Aquari...
Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Chinese Giant Salamanders: How many species are there?

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Two well-publicised papers, published in 2018 and 2019, based on analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes, propagate the view that the...
Monday, 18 November 2019

Who connects giant salamanders, my father’s win on a horse and my grandmother’s sewing machine?

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Arthur de C. Sowerby The answer is Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954) who I wrote about in my series on the Duke of Bedford’s Explorat...
Saturday, 9 November 2019

Housekeeping: Replacement photographs

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Unfortunately, a number of photographs I have added to posts over the years have now been removed from Getty Images. They therefore disappea...
Friday, 8 November 2019

History of the Golden Hamster: 6. Golden Hamsters kept in Scotland at the turn of the 20th Century

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All the captive Golden Hamsters up to the 1970s were descended from a single litter collected by Israel Aharoni near Aleppo in 1930. That s...
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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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