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, 12 November 2022

Vieillot’s Crested Fireback: a colour plate of a pheasant from 1955

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In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the appearance i...
Thursday, 10 November 2022

The mystery of ‘Martha’ the last Passenger Pigeon

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In a previous article I noted that a Wikipedia entry on Charles Otis Whitman of the University of Chicago stated that he sent the last Passe...
Tuesday, 8 November 2022

What—and who—connects the last Passenger Pigeons with the discovery of a hormone?

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Oscar Riddle was a scientist who came good. After an inauspicious and tedious early research career he is remembered for discovering the hor...
Wednesday, 2 November 2022

Shedding light on gulls’ eggs: how light exposure triggers different development in the last egg of a clutch

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In one of those quirks of circumstance a photograph of a much smaller than usual Black-headed Gull appeared on the Ayrshire Nature Facebook ...
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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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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