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, 28 May 2022

Mavis Gunther: infant feeding and the great personal tragedy in her life, the death of her husband, the zoologist Rolfe

›
This is a story that for me began in the early 1970s. At a meeting, as I recall of the Society for Endocrinology, I was approached by a litt...
3 comments:
Friday, 13 May 2022

Reticulated Giraffe

›
Kenya is the only country in which it is possible to see three geographically distinct forms of the Giraffe. The Masai subspecies ( Giraffa ...
Monday, 9 May 2022

Find Mr Aharoni and my Ostriches: Lord Walter Rothschild Sends the Future President of Israel on an Errand

›
Until I re-read Miriam Rothschild’s biography of her uncle, Lord Walter Rothschild, I had no idea that Israel Aharoni was one of Rothschild’...
Thursday, 5 May 2022

Clashing views on how to recognise species in the 1950s. The case of the Treefrogs

›
By the middle of the 20th century the museum-based classical zoologists were being looked down on. Their traditional pursuit of describing, ...
Tuesday, 3 May 2022

A Frog at Butrint in southern Albania: What was it?

›
Enjoying the archaeological site at Butrint—Greek settlement, Roman city, bishopric, Byzantine and then Venetian, but abandoned in the late ...
1 comment:
Friday, 29 April 2022

1950s Weekends at Romney Marsh. The Medics, Zoologists and a Spycatcher in Search of Marsh Frogs - and the Pub

›
When ‘Amo’ was in expansive mode the conversation at tea time was wide ranging, from what he was writing to the people (mostly old colleague...
Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Hire a Walrus? Well you could in 1897

›
Historians have documented the wide-ranging use of animals in the entertainments industry during the latter half of the 19th century, and ev...
1 comment:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Malcolm Peaker
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.