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.

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

A Press Cutting from 1932: Burgess Barnett, Lord Moyne and Galapagos Marine Iguanas at London Zoo

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  This photograph I came across connects three topics I have written about before: Dr Burgess Barnett shortly after taking over as Curator...
Sunday, 27 September 2020

The Way Things Were: Two Dead Gorillas, One Live Gorilla…and One Dead Hunter

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  On 4 August 1919  The Times reported under the headline 'New Creatures at the Zoo' reported how things were going at London Zoo a...
Friday, 25 September 2020

De Brazza’s Monkey: an encounter in the Republic of Congo

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The cover of the latest edition of the Bartlett Society’s Newsletter shows a De Brazza’s Monkey, Cercopithecus neglectus , now common in zoo...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

What on earth was the Bald-headed Chimpanzee?

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When I was looking through the numbers of individuals and of species of primate that arrived at London Zoo between 1883 and 1895, I came acr...
Saturday, 12 September 2020

Hong Kong: What katydid, not What Katy Did

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From a Hong Kong garden this week comes a photograph of Elimaea punctifera the Narrow-winged Katydid. This one was around 4" (10 cm) l...
Thursday, 10 September 2020

Monkeys in late Victorian London. An astonishing number arrived at the Zoo

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 Although difficult to quantify, anybody who has read Hannah Velten’s Beastly London or Leonard Robert Brightwell’s The Zoo Story , will re...
Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Hong Kong Cattle: Remnants of a Unique Genetic Lineage?

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I have been posting photographs taken in the 1960s on the Facebook Group, Hong Kong in the 1960s. Recently I added several taken on a walk ...
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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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