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Patterns of behavior : Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.Description: xii, 636 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226080897 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226080900 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 591.509 22 BUR
LOC classification:
  • QL750.5 .B87 2005
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Contents:
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.
Item type: Book
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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.

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