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Reading Croak: A Book of Fun for Frog Lovers and Remembering Phil Bishop

Reading Croak: A Book of Fun for Frog Lovers and Remembering Phil Bishop Croak is a “book of fun for frog lovers”, compiled by Phil Bishop and published by Exisle. Phil was a beloved Zoology Professor at Otago, the Co-Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission Amphibian Specialist Group, and the Chief Scientist of the Amphibian Survival Alliance.  Phil’s full list of achievements would fill an entire issue of Critic alone. He was one of the foremost experts on frogs in the world, a luminary who discovered new species of frogs and educated people about their importance. He saw potential in the most unassuming of creatures tadpoles and Zoology freshers alike and stood up for them, always. Croak now serves as a tribute to a life spent at the forefront of conservation, as he sought to deepen our understanding of these vitally important amphibians.

Who s on the right track? - Cranes Today

Who s on the right track? 21 April 2021 Stuart Anderson, president of Chortsey Barr Associates, looks into the increased popularity of crawler-mounting and more specifically of telecrawlers. He also makes a comparison between telecrawlers and rough terrains in regards to market demand and day-to-day lifting work. Fifteen years ago, Phil Bishop, then the widely-respected editor of this journal, analysed the issue of why Europe’s crane buyers made different product choices from the rest of the world. For the main part, Phil’s analysis discussed the all terrain and truck crane buying preferences of Europe’s buyers compared with the rough terrain preferences in North America and Japan. Much of the discussion focussed on types of crane buyer, owner-operator crane hirers buying cranes for local ‘taxi-crane’ service versus longer term contract hires in America and the need for more compact small rough terrain cranes in Japan.

Amphibian Conservation Champion Phil Bishop Dies

After a brief illness and under hospice care, Phil Bishop, a zoology professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and a globally renowned champion of amphibian conservation, died on January 23. He was 63 years old. Rob Gandola, the senior science officer for the Herpetological Society of Ireland, tells The Scientist that Bishop “was a gentleman and an incredible scientist with an unparalleled and infectious enthusiasm for the amphibians of the world, and their conservation. He will be sorely missed.” Bishop, who was born in Devon in southern England, attended University College Cardiff (now known as Cardiff University) in Wales for his undergraduate degree in zoology and stayed at the institution to get his master’s in parasitology, graduating in 1980. His PhD research in zoology was done at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. There, he studied a variety of aspects of frog behavior, with his thesis on the social aspects of th

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