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Burkhardt, Richard W. 1944-

Patterns of behavior : Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005. - xii, 636 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-607) and index.

Introduction : theory, practice, and place in the study of animal behavior -- Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the biological study of animal behavior in America -- British field studies of behavior : Selous, Howard, Kirkman, and Huxley -- Konrad Lorenz and the conceptual foundations of ethology -- Niko Tinbergen and the Lorenzian program -- Lorenz and national socialism -- The postwar reconstruction of ethology -- Ethology's new settings -- Attracting attention -- Tinbergen's vision for ethology -- Conclusion : ethology's ecologies.

ISBN: 0226080897 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226080900 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004004083

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lorenz, Konrad, 1903-1989.
Tinbergen, Niko, 1907-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Animal behavior--History.

LC Class. No.: QL750.5 / .B87 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 591.509 / BUR