Thursday, 31 December 2020

Beavers in Britain. Estate beavers in the 19th and 20th centuries

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Successful attempts to reintroduce the Eurasian Beaver to Britain are now well known. Fortunately, and despite opposition, the various relea...
Tuesday, 29 December 2020

Rain Stimulates Many Frogs to Breed. But HOW does it work?

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Smilisca baudinii from Central America In my last post here I remarked on the lack of knowledge of how the onset of seasonal rain induces b...
Wednesday, 23 December 2020

Rain and seasonal breeding. An unsolved problem in physiology

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Red-billed Quelea - male in breeding plumage Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>...
Sunday, 20 December 2020

'Perilous Paradise'. Zoology in New Guinea in 1936. Mr Marshall and Miss Cheesman

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The readers of the copy of Zoo (later called Animal & Zoo ) Magazine—a joint venture between the Zoological Society of London and Odham...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Statistics, repeatability and logic. Gaddum, Dale and one chicken

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A story that used to be told in the coffee rooms concerned Sir John Gaddum FRS at a time when he was assistant to who was to be become Sir H...
Sunday, 6 December 2020

Doonfoot Lagoon, Ayrshire: Its history. Brackish or Fresh Water?

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What has become known as Doonfoot Lagoon in Ayrshire has provided a great deal of excitement for birders and photographers. This year, as we...
Friday, 27 November 2020

Selecting Good Students: Sherrington’s Frog Test

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The second paragraph of Sir Vincent Wigglesworth’s (1899-1994) biographical memoir for the Royal Society reads: His father was imaginative,...