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.

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

OUCH. Medawar’s Demolition of Teilhard de Chardin’s 1950s book, The Phenomenon of Man

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P B Medawar in 1960 In his review published in 1961, now deservedly more famous than the book* itself, Peter Medawar started as he meant to ...
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Saturday, 25 February 2023

Blue-headed (Blue-capped) Waxbill: a colour plate from 1962

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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 in...
Tuesday, 21 February 2023

OUCH. Attacks in Print: Francis Crick under fire from an embryologist

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This letter appeared in Nature in 1970: Diffusion in Embryogenesis SIR,—As an embryologist who started work during the heyday of "fiel...
Saturday, 18 February 2023

An Unusually Large Smooth Newt. Who wrote this letter in 1977?

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UNUSUALLY LARGE SMOOTH NEWT Dear Sir, On the 18th October, 1977, I acquired a Common or Smooth newt of exceptional size, it measures 101 mil...
Friday, 17 February 2023

Red-billed Leiothrix (aka Pekin Robin) in Hong Kong

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AJP found this flock of five birds in the Tai Po Kau reserve in Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago. They were on a forest path in the low light...
Friday, 10 February 2023

Cabot’s Tragopan: a colour plate of a pheasant from 1963

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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 in...
Thursday, 9 February 2023

Monkeys and Vitamin D: How the word was spread by a medical man to Cheshire in the forerunner to Chester Zoo

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My story, Monkeys and Vitamin D. Pioneering science successfully applied to wild animal husbandry in the 1920s and 30s by Miss Hume, Miss Sm...
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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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