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.

Friday, 24 September 2021

The Blue-rumped or Little Malay Parrot: A tale of two birds

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There is no difficulty in telling which are males and which are females in this species of parrot. The male Blue-rumped or Little Malay Parr...
Thursday, 23 September 2021

Miss Knobel and her Parrots; a forgotten bit of science

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The simple death notice in The Times of 11 August 1967 or the account of a subsequent memorial service would have meant little to most rea...
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Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Arthur Sowerby and the Shanghai Museum: A new paper sheds light on his achievements

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 In my article of 11 May 2019 , I described the activities in China of the explorer Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954). I noted: For around...
Monday, 6 September 2021

Common Bluebottle: Hong Kong Butterfly with an unfortunate name

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Graphium sarpedon , the Common Bluebottle, photographed by AJP in Hong Kong last week
Sunday, 5 September 2021

Frank Wall: Army Medical Officer and Snakeman of India

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I first heard of Frank Wall in the 1960s, in John Romer’s checklists of Hong Kong amphibians and reptiles (see my recent post here ). I late...
Wednesday, 18 August 2021

Captain Wall and the Lady’s Hong Kong Snake

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The Indian Medical Service had a distinguished history not only in its purpose of providing the medical requirements of the Indian army but ...
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Thursday, 12 August 2021

A Field Guide to the Snakes of Hong Kong. A new book

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Thirty four years ago I reviewed a book on the reptiles and amphibians of Hong Kong. Because of the efforts of three individuals, inspired b...
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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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