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, 18 May 2020

A New Matamata Species. Now there are two

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The bizarre Matamata from South America was always thought of as one species, Chelus fimbriata . It did though seem odd that the one specie...
Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Why and how does an ‘annual’ chameleon die?

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Laborde's Chameleon Furcifer labordi Christopher Raxworthy / Public domain Twelve years ago came the news from Madagascar of an ‘an...
Friday, 24 April 2020

Stejneger’s Stonechat—in Hong Kong last week

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From Hong Kong last week came this photograph of a male stonechat. Taxonomy of the stonechats of Eurasia is mighty complicated and th...
Thursday, 23 April 2020

How—and why—do tadpoles fill their lungs?

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Those of us who have watched and kept tadpoles will have noticed that sometimes they come to the surface to take in air. A recent paper sho...
Friday, 3 April 2020

The Coronavirus War: A quotation from an ace scientific adviser to government

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Quoting from Solly Zuckerman, who pioneered operational research in the Second World War and who later became Chief Scientific Adviser to t...
Thursday, 2 April 2020

Frogs of China. Alice Boring’s Life and Work. 3. Herklots and Hong Kong Amphibians

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As I mentioned in Parts 1 and 2 of this series Geoffrey Herklots sent specimens of Hong Kong amphibians to Peking for Alice Boring to ide...
Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Frogs of China. Alice Boring’s Life and Work. 2. Legacy: Liu Cheng Chao

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Alice Boring made good use of her time on long leave in 1928-29. From correspondence with the leading American herpetologists of the day ...
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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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