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, 21 October 2022

Impala in the Masai Mara of Kenya

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  This male Impala ( Aepyceros melampus ) in the Masai Mara of Kenya was engaged in 'tongue flicking' when we photographed him in Se...
Monday, 17 October 2022

Tokay Geckos in Hong Kong: wild and/or feral populations?

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Tokay geckos are known to occur on the island of Lantau, in the mainland New Territories and on Hong Kong island. The new paper on the trade...
Thursday, 13 October 2022

Hong Kong Dragonfly: the female version in gold

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  This one from AJP seems to be the work of a Mr Auric Goldfinger before his demise at the hand of Bond, James Bond. However, it is probably...
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Monday, 10 October 2022

A pruinescent Hong Kong Dragonfly

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 A weekend photograph came from Hong Kong of a common species there, the Common Blue Skimmer, Orthetrum glaucum . The blue colour is not a b...
Monday, 26 September 2022

A new paper on the vast trade in Tokay Geckos in general and Hong Kong in particular

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The numbers of some species of wild animal traded defy the most vivid imagination. I read, in a new paper: About three million tokay geckos ...
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Friday, 23 September 2022

Two feral birds (Black Swan and Canada Goose) and two feral mammals in one morning

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Two species of feral birds loomed large at the mouth of the Doon on 8 September just before the announcement came that the Queen had died. B...
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

A reminder of how Raymond Cowles and Charles Bogert changed how the world viewed body temperature regulation in reptiles

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An offprint for sale caught my eye. Shortly afterwards I had my first comfortable look at an important piece of research published in wartim...
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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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