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, 23 March 2021

Frogs: Climate and Spawning. R Maxwell Savage: The Forgotten Doyen of British Ecological Herpetology Part I

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Frogs in Ayrshire were spawning last week, a few days before World Frog Day 2021 but unchanged over the past 40 years. Continuing the theme ...
Tuesday, 16 March 2021

The Mouse Adrenal X-Zone Revisited

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  This photomicrograph (from here ) shows the cross section of a female mouse. The medulla (M), X-zone (XZ) and zona fasciculata (ZF) of the...
Saturday, 20 February 2021

Frank Evers Beddard: Descriptive zoology at the turn of the 20th century

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Frank Evers Beddard Those browsing in public libraries in the middle of the 20th century would be excused, I hope, since I was one of those ...
Sunday, 14 February 2021

HONG KONG: An Urban Wild Boar

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AJP was walking to the Aberdeen MTR Station a couple of weeks ago when, much to his surprise, he spotted a wild boar walking along the footp...
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...
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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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