Thursday, 27 May 2021

Can you recognise a blackbird? More on events leading to Jock Marshall quitting London for Australia in 1960

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Sometim es more and more information comes to light on incidents and people I have written about or drawn attention to previously. One I fou...
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Monday, 24 May 2021

Pigeon musings

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A pair of Woodpigeons ( Columba palumbus ) provide endless interest and entertainment in our garden. The male, instantly recognisable by a d...
Saturday, 22 May 2021

Why Do Eggs Fail? A recent ZSL scientific meeting

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 The covid war has had a galvanising effect on communications. Not only can lectures be seen remotely with a degree of interaction with the ...
Friday, 21 May 2021

The Marsupial Frog and a Film from the 50s

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The Film When writing recently about ‘Amo’ (Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso FRS, 1901-1982) and his interest in amphibians I remembered that that h...
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Tuesday, 4 May 2021

R Maxwell Savage: The Forgotten Doyen of British Ecological Herpetology Part 6: The Physics and Chemistry of Frog Spawn

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Embed from Getty Images I am ending this series of articles on Maxwell Savage by discussing one small part of his research on the life of th...
Monday, 3 May 2021

R Maxwell Savage: The Forgotten Doyen of British Ecological Herpetology Part 5: Algae and Breeding in Xenopus

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Maxwell Savage argued that not only does the smell of algae attract Common Frogs to ponds but that a chemical from algae actually initiates ...
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...