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, 27 April 2021

R Maxwell Savage: The Forgotten Doyen of British Ecological Herpetology Part 4: The Smell of Algae

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Maxwell Savag e’s big idea was that Common Frogs are attracted to ponds for breeding by the odour emitted by algae in the water. This phenom...
Wednesday, 21 April 2021

R Maxwell Savage: The Forgotten Doyen of British Ecological Herpetology Part 3: His 1961 Book on the Common Frog

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Ronald Henry Maxwell Savage’s book, The Ecology and Life History of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria temporaria) was published in London by...
Thursday, 15 April 2021

The Frog Man. R Maxwell Savage: The Forgotten Doyen of British Ecological Herpetology Part 2

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R. Maxwell Savage from Beebee 2010 In my last post I described the work done by R. Maxwell Savage on the relations between local climate and...
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...
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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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