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, 23 January 2025

Jean Rostand. Frogs, glycerol, cryoprotection and how he might have scooped Parkes, Smith and Polge

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Jean Rostand In a previous article I described some of the work on frogs and toads done by the French biologist, Jean Rostand (1894-1977), w...
Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Elliot’s Pheasant: 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...
Saturday, 18 January 2025

THE LAST TIGERS OF HONG KONG by John Saeki

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I am late to the party with this book which was published in Hong Kong in 2022. I was thanked by the author for providing our recollections ...
Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Greater Painted-Snipe. Hong Kong January 2025

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AJP spotted these Greater Painted-Snipe ( Rostratula benghalensis ) in Hong Kong last week. They were lurking at the edge of a reed bed. Tha...
Monday, 13 January 2025

Honduras: Proboscis Bats hiding in plain sight

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  This sign board amongst the mangroves lining the Rio Cuero of the Cuero y Salada Wildlife Refuge in Honduras appears to have nothing goimg...
Sunday, 12 January 2025

The Multi-Toed Frogs of Jean Rostand. An old problem solved by a fluke, literally by a fluke

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I was looking at old copies of Animal Life magazine, published in Britain in the early 1960s when I came across an article I remembered read...
Monday, 6 January 2025

Montezuma Oropendola. Honduras, November 2024

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Gangs of Montezuma Oropendolas are common in the grounds of the Lodge at Pico Bonito on the Caribbean side of Honduras. The colonial, woven ...
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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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