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.

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Leafbirds in Hong Kong

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AJP spotted these leafbirds at Tai Po Kau in Hong Kong during their recent cold weather. The species now goes under the name of Greyish-crow...
Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus. Finding Miss Waldron

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This article started out as a follow-up to a previous one which touched on Willoughby Prescott Lowe (1872-1949), a major animal collector f...
Thursday, 18 January 2024

George Finlayson (1790-1823) on travel, curiosity and science - plus his eponymous bulbul

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In a recent article I wrote on George Finlayson’s eponymous squirrel . Finlayson had written notes before his death on board the ship carry...
Saturday, 13 January 2024

Bronze-Winged Mannikins: a colour plate from 1969

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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, 6 January 2024

The Army Surgeon’s White Squirrel of Siam

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This article could begin as part of a quiz: What mammal of unusual coloration connects a mission to Thailand, when it was Siam, and a Scotti...
Wednesday, 3 January 2024

On that Cassowary in Timbuctu

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I was looking for something else when I came across this letter in The Times of 14 October 1892. It came after several days of corresponden...
Tuesday, 19 December 2023

Newting in Hong Kong

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Nearly three weeks ago we had a walk through Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve in Hong Kong. On our usual walk (starting on the Yellow and ending on...
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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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