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.

Thursday, 18 July 2024

Great Mormon Butterfly in Hong Kong

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AJP photographed this Great Mormon Butterfly ( Papilio mormon ) in the garden in May. He has seen large numbers of this large butterfly (aro...
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

ANIMALS Magazine. Back to the 60s

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  ANIMALS magazine was launched in January 1963 by Purnell & Sons as a weekly. The editor was John Paget Chancellor (1927-2014) but tele...
Monday, 8 July 2024

Feral Gecko Populations in British University Buildings

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Escapes and deliberate releases have been responsible for the occurrence of feral populations non-native amphibians and reptiles in Britain,...
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Friday, 28 June 2024

Coucals Taking the Sun on a Hot Day in Hong Kong

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AJP saw these Greater Coucals ( Centropus sinensis ) in the garden on a hot day last week. Resident in Hong Kong they are known to sunbathe,...
Friday, 21 June 2024

Terrapins in the Algarve. A North American Field Guide Would Have Been Useful

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I was hoping we would see Spanish Terrapins ( Mauremys leprosa ) and European Pond Terrapins ( Emys orbicularis ) when we were in Portugal i...
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Thursday, 13 June 2024

An Undesirable Alien in Deepest Ayrshire: New Zealand Flatworm

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  SJP realised that the worm in the topsoil of the allotment was not the usual earthworm. It was though a different sort of worm, one which ...
Tuesday, 11 June 2024

The Heart of the Salamander: Science in the Making 1940-41

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The Royal Society sometimes publishes papers from the archives under the heading Science in the Making. A recent one certainly drew my atten...
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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.
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