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, 26 August 2023

Red-tailed Amazon Parrot: a colour plate from 1960 and article by ‘Pat’ Maxwell

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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...
Sunday, 13 August 2023

Spotted Sandpiper: a colour plate from 1968

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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, 8 August 2023

Another Model of the Fang-erecting mechanism of a Viper. E.T.B. Francis’s model in the Cole Museum at Reading was not the only one

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When I saw the photograph of the model of the snake’s jaw made by Eric Thomas Brazil Francis (1900-1993) for the Cole Museum of Zoology at t...
Monday, 7 August 2023

E.T.B. Francis and the Cole Museum in the University of Reading: Salamanders and a Working Model of a Snake’s Venom Fang

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Professor Amanda Callaghan of the University of Reading contacted me recently. She is Curator of the Cole Museum of Zoology which moved into...
Sunday, 30 July 2023

Red-bellied Conure or Maroon-bellied Parakeet: a colour plate from 1954

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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...
Saturday, 29 July 2023

The Curious Case of the Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel: Digging in the History of Endocrinology

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In a previous article I described my delight at seeing Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrels for the first time in the wild. These animals are a c...
Saturday, 8 July 2023

Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

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Never having seen the species in the wild I was delighted we had good views of a Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel ( Ictidomys tridecemlineatus...
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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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