Scholar visits – Ellisiv and Maria

A visitor put up from two of our MSc college students (on this case co-supervised with NTNU) who had been right here on a analysis go to for 3 weeks…

Miss Waldron’s Purple Colobus. Discovering Miss Waldron

This text began out as a follow-up to a earlier one which touched on Willoughby Prescott Lowe (1872-1949), a serious animal collector for the Pure Historical past Museum in London…

The View from my Window

Final week, Peter Penning regaled us with tales of death-defying birding exploits. Virtually being bitten by a Black Mamba? Geez, dude! However there may be one other excessive to birding,…

ShukerNature: THE HORN SNAKE AND THE HOOP SNAKE

  Hoop snake in sizzling pursuit! (© Richard Svensson) Following on from my earlier ShukerNature weblog article chronicling what might be North America’s most acquainted folkloric Fierce Critter of any…

Influences of Human Growth and Predators on Opossum Occupancy, Abundance, and Exercise – Journal of Zoology Weblog

Veon, J.T., Lassiter, E.V., Johansson, E., Shaw, M., McTigue, L., Massey, A., Gibson, R. and DeGregorio, B.A. (2023). Affect of human growth and predators on patterns of Virginia opossum occupancy,…

ShukerNature: THE HIDEOUS HODAG – HISTORY OF A HOAX

  Fibre-glass hodag statue in entrance of the Rhinelander Space Chamber of Commerce (© Gourami Watcher/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 3.0 licence) Again within the pioneering days of North America, when…

The Prime Cryptozoology Books of 2023

The Prime Cryptozoology Books of 2023 by Loren Coleman, Director, Worldwide Cryptozoology Museum Our annual picks stroll throughout the same old panorama and literature, with acquainted creatures and a few surprises populating…

Fur and Fangs moderately than Feathers and Beaks

Memorable encounters with Mammals Half II It’s usually reckoned that there are extra deer in Britain as we speak than there have been within the Center Ages, a truth that’s…

The Trophic Area of interest of Lizards in María Cleofas Island – Anole Annals

I awoke after spending the entire night time in movement and listening to the engine noise as a crib track. Some years in the past, it had been a crab…

Zoology Jottings: George Finlayson (1790-1823) on journey, curiosity and science

In a latest article I wrote on George Finlayson’s eponymous squirrel. Finlayson had written notes earlier than his dying on board the ship carrying him from Calcutta to London. Sir…