Niko's nature : the life of Niko Tinbergen and his science of animal behaviour / / Hans Kruuk ; with drawings and photographs by Niko Tinbergen
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| Autore: |
Kruuk H (Hans)
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| Titolo: |
Niko's nature : the life of Niko Tinbergen and his science of animal behaviour / / Hans Kruuk ; with drawings and photographs by Niko Tinbergen
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] |
| ©2003 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (774 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 591.5/092 |
| 591.5092 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethologists - Netherlands |
| Animal behavior | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | TinbergenNiko |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-371) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of photos in the text; Chapter 1 Wild birds and science; Chapter 2 A Dutch upbringing; Home, siblings, friends, and school; Youth organized for nature; A trip abroad; Chapter 3 Student years and Greenland; Playing truant; PhD time; Greenland; Chapter 4 Ethologist in the 1930s; Leiden after Greenland; Camping with the wasps; Experiments in Leiden; Niko and Konrad; Leiden after Lorenz; Chapter 5 The Second World War and after; German occupation; Leiden after the war; Productivity, ideas, and travel; The study of instinct; Move to Oxford |
| Chapter 6 Starting again: Oxford in the 1950sArrival; The 'Hard Core'; Writing and science; Students in the late 1950s; Research projects; Niko and academia; Home and career; Chapter 7 Niko's two worlds: Oxford in the 1960s; Dunes, birds, and beasts; The four whys; Walney; Serengeti; Photography and filming; Oxford academia again, Niko's other world; Writing, lecturing, and conferences; Ethology and humanity; The black dog, at home, at work, everywhere; Chapter 8 The Nobel Prize, and human behaviour; Nobel laureate; Childhood autism; The Alexander technique; Chapter 9 Winding down; Retirement | |
| Old friendsA family, a cottage, a life; Chapter 10 Niko's legacy; An evaluation; Output: publications and impact; Rewards; Science that followed; Torch-bearers; Memories; Notes; Niko Tinbergen's publications; Index of proper names; Index of subjects | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the biological study of animal behaviour. 'Ethology', and his talent for devising behaviour-testing experiments, provided an outlet for Niko's enthusiasm for gulls and sticklebacks, snow-buntings and foxes, wasps and falcons, and even children.This first full-length biography of Niko Tinbergen, lavishly illustrated with many of Niko's own drawings, describ |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Niko's nature |
| ISBN: | 0-19-154539-2 |
| 1-280-86972-0 | |
| 9786610869725 | |
| 0-19-162247-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455999703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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