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.

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Golden Hamsters in the wild are diurnal but in captivity are nocturnal. Do we know why?

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in a previous article about Golden Hamsters, I wrote After Rolf Gattermann’s death from cancer in 2006 at the age of 57, his team of c...
Saturday, 23 November 2019

Chinese Giant Salamanders: More information on those we had in the lab in 1960s Hong Kong

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In the last post I noted how Edward George Boulenger had, in his description of a new species in 1924, noted: ‘Head…very much depressed’. I...
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...
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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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