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.

Friday, 21 March 2025

The family connexion between ‘the father of American mammalogy’ and Hong Kong Country Parks

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I have known the name Merriam for 65 years since I kept a Merriam’s Kangaroo Rat ( Dipodomys merriami ), a wonderful animal, for several yea...
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Sunday, 16 March 2025

Who connects a tropical lizard to a Hong Kong landmark, the U.S. president’s office…and a misspelt name?

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For the answer let’s start in Washington D.C. where the president sits at a desk given to him by Queen Victoria. Her Majesty’s Ship Resolute...
Thursday, 6 March 2025

A Pocket Gopher in the pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacán in Mexico. But which pocket gopher?

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Seeing a rodent in the wild is always a good day—even if the taxonomy is complicated and I am confused. A  pocket gopher was an animal we we...
Sunday, 2 March 2025

‘The Aurochs Lives Again’. A heck of a load of old bullocks

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Animal Life , May 1963 Last year I wrote an article about the short-lived British magazine Animal Life from the early 1960s (see here ). I ...
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 ...
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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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