Our 9-day journey to Turkey in September was quick, and it was not about birding. Even so, our quick keep did permit me contact with a superb variety of habitats.…
Category: Zoology Blogs
Rent a Walrus? Effectively you would in 1897
Historians have documented the wide-ranging use of animals within the entertainments business throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, and even earlier. Travelling menageries for festivals and wakes, circuses,…
ShukerNature: SMALL-SCREEN SHUKER SIGHTINGS – A CLICKABLE COLLECTION OF MY TV APPEARANCES
Screenshot from certainly one of my appearances on GMTV through the early Nineteen Nineties (© Dr Karl Shuker/GMTV – reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation…
Raccoon canines attacked an grownup badger at its outlier – Zoology by Vadim Sidorovich
Co-author Irina Rotenko An aggressive encounter between raccoon canine and badger was documented by a camera-trap on the badger outlier in early June in Naliboki Forest, the central-western a part…
Zoology Jottings: Fifties Weekends at Romney Marsh. The Medics, Zoologists and a Spycatcher in Search of Marsh Frogs
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‘Amo’ was in expansive mode the dialog at tea time was huge ranging, from what he was writing to the folks (principally outdated colleagues on the Royal Veterinary School)…
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…