The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

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The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon taken from LIFETIDE, by Lyall Watson First published 1979 by Hodder & Stoughton Limited The behaviour of the Japanese monkey Macaca fustata has been studied intensely for more than thirty years in a number of wild colonies. One of...

Progress in Satins

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Progress in Satins
Progress in Satins by Frank Hawley First printed in August 1984 The introduction of the Satin mouse was solely due to the efforts of our former President, Tony Cooke, who noticed the mutation in laboratory stock and had the foresight to appreciate its potential. Since...

From the Archives

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From the Archives
Are your mice telepathic? by Roger Hutchings First printed in January 1983 Considering that many thousands of mice bred by fanciers, and considering that wild mice will instinctively bite to escape from being handled, the Fancy encounters remarkably few biters. Mice...

Who’s who in the mouse fancy

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Who’s who in the mouse fancy
Bernard Longbottom Bernard Longbottom was born on June 10, 1913. In the early thirties he and his brother, Edward, kept rabbits, cavies and budgerigars on a fairly large scale. It was not until 1953 that Bernard joined the mouse Fancy in his own right. Starting up...

Facts & Figures

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Facts & Figures
I was not able to go to Bradford Championship Show this year, but my first attendance was in 1983. The show was at Doncaster Racecourse, as now, but before the big refurbishment and reorganisation took place. It was a very different place back then. The cafeteria was...