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.

Monday, 23 December 2019

The King’s Tibetan Mastiffs in 1820s London. An interesting paper in Archives of Natural History

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Long gone are the days when a zoo would welcome an exotic breed of dog to exhibit. But that is what the then new London Zoo had to do in 18...
Monday, 16 December 2019

Neville Chamberlain: Prime Minister and Amateur Entomologist

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Arthur Neville Chamberlain by Walter Stoneman in 1921 NPG x166506 ©National Portrait Gallery In the aftermath of last week’s General El...
Monday, 9 December 2019

The Bear Pits of Bern in 1955. How not to keep bears

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The coat-of-arms of Bern The current issue of Keeper Contact deals with bears in zoos with particular emphasis on the changes in housi...
Sunday, 8 December 2019

The Unintentional Free-Range Homing Hamster

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The first and only Golden Hamster I kept was installed in a cage in a converted greenhouse. The cage, made by my father nearly 60 years ago...
Saturday, 7 December 2019

Why are Powerpoint slides so poor at scientific meetings again? Remember P.C. Williams!

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Those of us of a certain age enjoy the wry amusement of seeing topics emerge time and time again as if nobody had considered the problem pr...
Sunday, 1 December 2019

The Journalist and the Giraffe. Chapman Pincher’s paper in Nature

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There cannot be many journalists who still have a scientific paper they published in the 1940s quoted in current discussions on an old ev...
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...
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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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