When ‘Amo’ was in expansive mode the dialog at tea time was huge ranging, from what he was writing to the folks (principally outdated colleagues on the Royal Veterinary School)…
Category: Zoology Blogs
A TALE OF SCALES, AND SOME BOTANICAL SERPENTS
Classic engraving from 1885, depicting big tree-like Lepidodendron lycophytes thriving throughout the Carboniferous Interval (public area) I’ve all the time been fascinated by zoological misidentifications, whether or not unintentional…
Outcomes of our research on wolf copy in Naliboki Forest in 2022 – Zoology by Vadim Sidorovich
Co-author Irina Rotenko This yr we studied the query of wolf copy in Naliboki Forest within the space of about one thousand sq. kilometres. Within the spring of 2022, there…
What—and who—connects the final Passenger Pigeons with the invention of a hormone?
Oscar Riddle was a scientist who got here good. After an inauspicious and tedious early analysis profession he’s remembered for locating the hormone prolactin. Prolactin from the pituitary gland is…
A GREEN MAN OF NOTTINGHAM, AND A PURPLE WINGED CAT? A SHUKERNATURE PICTURE OF THE DAY
The very curious however fascinating portray spied and photographed in a Nottingham pub by Fb good friend Kristian Lander (© Kristian Lander) As we speak’s ShukerNature Image of the…
Zoology Jottings: A Frog at Butrint in southern Albania: What was it?
Having fun with the archaeological website at Butrint—Greek settlement, Roman metropolis, bishopric, Byzantine after which Venetian, however deserted within the late Center Ages—on the southern tip of Albania, better treats…
Half 1 – AN AMERICAN ANOMALY
How can studies of phantom kangaroos and different out-of-place thriller macropods be defined? (public area) GENERAL INTRODUCTION Throughout the previous 35 years, I’ve written many a whole lot…
Clashing views on the best way to recognise species within the Fifties. The case of the Treefrogs
[*] By the center of the twentieth century the museum-based classical zoologists had been being appeared down on. Their conventional pursuit of describing, naming and cataloguing species that had been…
Half 2 – ESCAPEES AND OTHER EXPLANATIONS
On the alert – an grownup japanese gray kangaroo (© fir0002/Wikipedia – GFDL 1.2 licence) As revealed in Half 1 of this three-part ShukerNature article (click on right here…
Lord Walter Rothschild Sends the Future President of Israel on an Errand
Till I re-read Miriam Rothschild’s biography of her uncle, Lord Walter Rothschild, I had no concept that Israel Aharoni was considered one of Rothschild’s collectors within the discipline. Aharoni is…