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, 28 February 2020

Chameleons I have kept and chameleons I have seen in the wild

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This Jackson's Chameleon was the second chameleon I kept ca 1960 I was writing something on chameleons for another purpose when I w...
Wednesday, 19 February 2020

A Hong Kong Sunbird fest

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Hong Kong birdwatchers and photographers were out in force to see these 'Occasional Visitors' over Chinese New Year. Our Hong Kong c...
Sunday, 16 February 2020

Bouin’s fluid. But who was Bouin?

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Bouin’s fluid will always be etched on my brain for a then commonplace but, with hindsight, foollhardy incident. During my final year at sc...
Monday, 10 February 2020

A Hong Kong Spider

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Walking the hills last weekend, our Hong Kong correspondent spotted this large spider in a drainage ditch. We do not have a book on Hong Ko...
Saturday, 8 February 2020

Joan Procter and Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell at London Zoo in the 1920s-30s: A Dissenting Account from Solly Zuckerman

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Solly Zuckerman with monkey. Oxford, 1935 from Apes to Warlords I have written several times about Joan Procter, Curator of Reptiles ...
Thursday, 6 February 2020

Doflein’s Salamander

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Some salamanders are very strange beasts. None more so than the tropical Central American species in the genus Bolitoglossa.  They can ...
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Sunday, 2 February 2020

Clifford Emmens: Aquarist, Endocrinologist and the Natural History of Bombing

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Clifford Walter Emmens (from Biographical Memoir, AAS) To anybody keeping and breeding tropical fish from the 1950s until the 1990s, th...
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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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