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, 23 October 2020

I know who that is! J.B.S. Haldane—a new biography—and the editor of Water Life magazine

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I was reading the new biography of J.B.S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian to see if it could tell me anything important I did not know alread...
Tuesday, 20 October 2020

How good at keeping and breeding animals was London Zoo in the 1950s? The fellows’ rebellion and the search for historical data

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In my last post I described how data had been gathered to investigate the breeding record, survival of young and rates of mortality at Londo...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Primates at the Zoo in Victorian London: Matters of Life and Death

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On 10 September I wrote ( here ) about the astonishing number of primates (1,300 individuals of 166 species) that arrived at London Zoo in t...
Friday, 9 October 2020

William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. Learn how science is done from a classic film

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First-year students confined to their living quarters and online teaching by the resurgence of covid-19 would do well to watch the film, Wil...
Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Crested Serpent Eagles mobbed by Kites in Hong Kong

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AJP reports that while on the island of Lamma last Sunday he heard a noise coming from overhead. A battle was in progress between two Creste...
Sunday, 4 October 2020

Eaten Alive—From The Inside. Remarkable new observations of a snake preying on toads

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A paper from Thailand has recently hit the herpetological headlines. We all know that snakes swallow their prey whole. They do not dismember...
Friday, 2 October 2020

Galapagos Flightless Cormorant. In the wake of the Beagle

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One hundred and eighty-five years ago today His Majesty’s Ship Beagle weighed anchor in what is now known as Tagus Cove. She had arrived in...
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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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