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.

Sunday, 31 March 2024

Pallas’s Squirrel on the Peak, Hong Kong

›
AJP photographed this squirrel on the Peak, Hong Kong island last week. I have written about Pallas’s Squirrel ( Callosciurus erythraeus ) i...
Thursday, 28 March 2024

Günther's Frogs in Hong Kong. Start of the breeding season

›
 I have shown photographs of Günther's Frogs ( Sylvirana guentheri ) before but I could not resist these AJP photographed a few days ago...
Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Australian Grass Parakeets: a colour plate from 1952

›
In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the appearance in...
Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Miss Waldron's Red Colobus: Any photographs or further information on Fannie Waldron?

›
 Having started this series with finding out who Miss Waldron was, I shall end it with a request. I have come across no photographs of Fanni...
2 comments:
Sunday, 24 March 2024

Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus. Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell: Doctor, Collector, Author, Soldier, Secret Agent

›
As I showed in a previous article in this series, it was not Willoughby Lowe and Fannie Waldron who brought the first specimens of Miss Wald...
Sunday, 17 March 2024

Miss Waldron's Red Colobus: Who was R W Hayman who first described and named the monkey?

›
The man who named Miss Waldron's Red Colobus was Robert William Hayman of the Natural History Museum in London. Although his dates were ...
Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Hong Kong: Male Asian Swallowtail

›
AJP sent this photograph of an uncommon butterfly he saw three weeks ago in a park in Kowloon Tong. It is a male Asian  Swallowtail, Papilio...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Malcolm Peaker
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.