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, 30 September 2023

Spotted in North Dakota: White-tailed Jackrabbit

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Spotted by one of our party on a large patch of grass between blocks of housing this White-tailed Jackrabbit ( Lepus townsendii ) caused gre...
Monday, 25 September 2023

A Hong Kong Butterfly: the Lemon Emigrant

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 From Hong Kong last week came this photograph of a Lemon Emigrant ( Catopsilia pomona ), a common species over much of south-east Asia and ...
Tuesday, 19 September 2023

A Hong Kong Bush-Cricket or Katydid - Disguised as a leaf

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From Hong Kong last week came this photograph of a grasshopper bush-cricket or katydid. And no, we don't know which species it is. Than...
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Wednesday, 13 September 2023

John Romer’s Cobra Bite in Hong Kong 65 Years Ago

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The South China Morning Post (SCMP) of 23 May 1958 reported: At the time the Chinese Cobra ( Naja atra ) was considered a subspecies of the...
Sunday, 10 September 2023

Tui or Parson Bird: 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...
Friday, 8 September 2023

John Romer’s Specimens of King Cobra: A Fatal Case of Snake-Bite in 1950s Hong Kong

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My eye was taken when looking through JOHN DUDLEY ROMER’s (1920-1982) notebook* on snake specimens he had collected or been given in Hong Ko...
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...
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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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