Monday, 25 January 2021

Pallas’s Squirrel in Hong Kong: Feral pets, an introduced or reintroduced species…or even a range expansion?

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Fifty years ago the sight of a wild squirrel in Hong Kong would have been unthinkable. But now, Pallas’s Squirrel ( Callosciurus erythraeus ...
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021

A Hong Kong Moth

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 AJP found this moth in Hong Kong last week. It seems to be a female Eudocima homaena, noted as being a pest on orange trees in parts of it...
Monday, 11 January 2021

Do any introduced Painted Frogs still survive in Manchester?

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Discoglossus pictus from Sicily Fabrizio Li Vigni here In my last post I described how Louis Lantz had bred Painted Frogs ( Discoglossus s...
Friday, 8 January 2021

Louis Lantz: Frenchman, Manchester resident, outstanding herpetologist, and important in wider biological circles in 20th century Britain

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My first memory of seeing the name Louis Lantz is of being mystified by the appearance in Malcolm Smith’s book, The British Amphibians and R...
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>...