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.

Sunday, 27 June 2021

Chinese Mountain Cat: New research indicates it is a subspecies of the Wildcat

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After our encounters with Chinese Mountain Cats in Sichuan in 2017, I wrote several articles on this enigmatic and attractive small felid ( ...
Thursday, 24 June 2021

The Reptile House at London Zoo: the beginning of the end

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News that London Zoo was to start the process of planning a new reptile house appears to have evoked little response other than in the zoo e...
Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Masai Mara Safari - 30 years ago

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Itchy feet with the world out of reach? These photographs from the Masai Mara in September 1991 will not help. Black Rhinoceros Topi ( Damal...
Friday, 18 June 2021

Marsupial frogs: Important questions remain on life in the pouch

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Following up my article on marsupial frogs, I have acquired a copy of William Duellman’s book, Marsupial Frogs. Gastrotheca and Allied Gener...
Sunday, 6 June 2021

‘A quantity of rhinoceros (defunct) on the premises’: the discovery of the discoverer of the parathyroid glands

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There are not many articles that can be started with the immortal line of W.S Gilbert ‘When I was a lad’. But this one can. When I was a lad...
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...
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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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