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.

Saturday, 27 November 2021

Bruce S Grant’s book ‘Observing Evolution’ and observing scientists who wrote on evolution

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I have enjoyed reading Bruce Grant’s book Observing Evolution (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 2021) which describes his work from the early 1980...
Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Snakes’ Teeth: New light on their structure and evolution

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As the dentist’s drill vibrated my teeth last week—and before being interrupted by the nurse being stung by a wasp (in Scotland in the middl...
Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Masai Mara Safari - 30 years ago: Cheetah with Four Cubs

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 It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to the Cheetah than this mother and four cubs we saw in the Masai Mara of Kenya in 1...
Monday, 15 November 2021

Edwin Ray Lankester: Gladly Making Fools Suffer

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I have recently been reading a biography of Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929). Most biologists never get to grips with the various mechani...
Sunday, 7 November 2021

ZOO LIFE: ZSL’s Post-War Magazine 1946-1957

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Zoo Life was a magazine published by the Zoological Society of London from 1946 until 1957. It was very different from its predecessor that...
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Wednesday, 3 November 2021

THE SEALS AND THE SCIENTISTS. A 1979 Book About an Important Study in 1950 on Lactation and Growth in the Grey Seal

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Around 4 o’clock on days he was in Amo 1 with cigar burning brightly in his hand would wander into the coffee room for tea and regale us wi...
Sunday, 24 October 2021

The Omnivorous Lizards of Aruba, or: Breakfast at home is never quite the same

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Arriving at a hotel at around 3 am with a bad cold is not conducive to the best of tempers. And having got up to catch breakfast the next mo...
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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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