Once again it’s time to continue with my slow-burn zoo review series. I’ve just returned from a trip to Tokyo, you see, and while there I visited two zoos. Today we look at the first of them: Ueno Zoological Gardens (usually just called Ueno Zoo), located in Ueno Park in Taito City, central Toyko…
The Kleinmachnow Lion is Definitely Not a Lion
The Slightly Surprising Diversity of Zebras, Part 2
Back in October 2022, we looked at the diversity and evolution of plains zebras, a group that includes the Quagga. Here, we carry on with the zebra series, this time looking at Grevy’s zebra….
The Discovery of the Okapi, Part 2
The Discovery of the Okapi, Part 1
Piltdown Man and the Dualist Contention
Pouches, pockets and sacs in the heads, necks and chests of baleen whales
The Slightly Surprising Diversity of Zebras, Part 1
The Domes of Wisdom: an Asian Elephant Tale
Time for another article from the extensive TetZoo archives, this time a piece from ver 2, 2008 (original here). We begin with this interesting photo provided by my good friend Markus Bühler (of Bestiarium): it shows a bull Asian elephant Elephas maximus at Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg…
Domestic Horses of Africa
I’ve written a fair amount about HORSES at TetZoo, predominantly at versions 2 and 3. For reasons, I now aim to reproduce it here at ver 3. We start with a article I first published in 2015 (original version here)…
Hartebeest, Long-Faced Antelopes of Many Forms
In another effort to rescue old TetZoo material from the vandalized archives of ver 2 and 3, here’s a slightly revamped version of a 2009 article on hartebeest (the original version is here)…
Suddenly -- Duikers!
Meeting the Hayling Island Jungle cat
Once again I’m giving you something from the archives, since there’s just no chance at all to produce anything new right now. Here, then, is a TetZoo ver 3 article that was originally published there in 2013 (that version is here). Ironically, that 2013 article was itself a republishing of a version from 2009…
The Incredible South American Maned Wolf
Inspired by my recent article on South American wild dogs, I went to the trouble of digging out a very brief TetZoo ver 2 article I published in 2007 on the remarkable and beautiful 'fox on stilts', the Maned wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus (said article is here). My aim was to augment and update that text such that it might be a useful one-stop review on this animal.
Kogia, Shark-Mouthed Horror
Once more I must resort to plundering stuff from the archives, this time an article from TetZoo ver 2, originally published in July 2008 (and available here at wayback machine). Today: the kogiid sperm whales!
Conservation Concerns for South America's Remarkable Endemic Dogs, Revisited for 2022
Greater Noctules: Specialist Predators of Migrating Passerines, Revisited
For reasons, I still have no time at all for blogging, alas. And thus I once again give you an article from the archives. This time, one of my favourite BAT articles. I’ve covered bats a fair bit at TetZoo (see below for links), but this remains one of the most memorable (it has received some minor updates relative to its initial outing, which occurred here in 2006 at ver 1)…
Release the Fossil Pronghorns!!
Here we are with another effort to recycle material from the TetZoo archives (and invariably ruined by its hosters and hence made unavailable to those who might consult it). This time: a revamped version of my fossils pronghorns article, first published at ver 2 back in 2010 (an original is here)…
