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.

Monday, 27 July 2026

John Anderson’s Newt on the Road from Mandalay

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The first of what are now known as crocodile newts to be described in the scientific literature was Tylotriton verrucosus from Yunnan Provi...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Lord Derby’s Woolly Opossum. Colombia, November 2025

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I find the marsupials of the Americas fascinating. The opossums with their long rat-like tails cannot compete in the cuteness stakes with th...
Friday, 17 July 2026

Edward Bosc Sladen’s eponymous animals from the 1868 mission from Burma to Yunnan

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Sir Edward Bosc Sladen spent much of his career as a soldier/colonial administrator/diplomat in Burma. He was the natural choice to lead the...
Monday, 29 June 2026

White-browed Spinetail of the Colombian Andes

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This White-browed Spinetail ( Hellmayrea gularis ) was searching the bark of trees—and taking proffered mealworms—at Hacienda El Bosque, a p...
Sunday, 28 June 2026

A Murder in Yunnan by David Leffman: a book - and the zoologist, John Anderson

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David Leffman has written a cracking book on the murder of a British diplomat, Augustus Raymond Margary, in China near the border with Burma...
Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Terns: Hong Kong on board the Aberdeen to Po Toi Ferry

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Birdwatchers in 1960s Hong Kong, in the words of my mother ‘would have looked at you gone out’ had you suggested that thirty years later a m...
Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Dr Brumback of the Eponymous Night Monkey: A Tragic End

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‘Who was Brumback?’ was the question as we watched the family group of the eponymous night monkeys in the rewilded grounds of Rancho CamanĂ¡ ...
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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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