Dr Lim Boo Liat

IF you click on Google today, you'll see a Doodle of a doctor with animals around him. It's Google honouring the late Dr Lim Boo Liat, an eminent zoologist ...

Dubbed as 'the father of zoology'. He and his fellow researchers discovered a new species of the mountain reed snake, Macrocalamus gentingensis, in Genting Highlands, Pahang, which is found nowhere else in the world. He founded the concept of 'ecological labeling by parasite pattern' in which parasites and food habits of small mammals were good indicators of their behavioral habits in their natural environments. He became an expert recognised by both local and foreign research institutions in the study of animals and their role in the transmission of diseases. This led him to Carey Island in the coastal region of Selangor in 1944, where he befriended the Orang Asli, and learned how to identify animals from them. From 1955 to 1969, he published more than 80 scientific papers on vertebrate animals and was asked to head a newly founded Medical Ecology Division at the IMR. It's Google honouring the late Dr Lim Boo Liat, an eminent zoologist and mammalogist who dedicated his life to unearthing and conserving Malaysia's biological diversity.

Marking the anniversary of the late scientist's Honorary Membership to the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) in 2003.

It is considered the Society’s highest honor.” “Dr. Lim was an outstanding mammalogist and his accomplishments are highly regarded throughout the world. He was honored by the American Society of Mammalogists as one of our Honorary Members," said Dr. Robert M. Timm, a historian and past president of the American Society of Mammalogists. "This was conferred by a vote of the entire membership attending our annual meeting in June, 2003."