Niko's Nature The Life of Niko Tinbergen and His Science of Animal Behaviour

by Kruuk, Hans; Tinbergen, Niko

• ISBN13: 9780198515586
• ISBN10: 0198515588
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191622472
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This affectionate account is the first biography of Niko Tinbergen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist who turned a passion for observing nature into a revolutionary new branch of science that illuminated the study of animal behavior. 55 halftones. Line illustrations.

Author Biography

Hans Kruuk is Honorary Professor of Zoology at the University of Aberdeen.

Table of Contents

List of photos in the text	xiii
CHAPTER 1 Wild birds and science	1	(12)
CHAPTER 2 A Dutch upbringing	13	(24)
Home, siblings, friends, and school	14	(14)
Youth organized for nature	28	(5)
A trip abroad	33	(4)
CHAPTER 3 Student years and Greenland	37	(34)
Playing truant	38	(13)
PhD time	51	(8)
Greenland	59	(12)
CHAPTER 4 Ethologist in the 1930's	71	(42)
Leiden after Greenland	72	(10)
Camping with the wasps	82	(4)
Experiments in Leiden	86	(4)
Niko and Konrad	90	(8)
Leiden after Lorenz	98	(15)
CHAPTER 5 The Second World War and after	113	(46)
German occupation	114	(15)
Leiden after the war	129	(14)
Productivity, ideas, and travel	143	(6)
The study of instinct	149	(2)
Move to Oxford	151	(8)
CHAPTER 6 Starting again: Oxford in the 1950's	159	(48)
Arrival	160	(4)
The 'Hard Core'	164	(9)
Writing and science	173	(12)
Students in the late 1950's	185	(4)
Research projects	189	(4)
Niko and academia	193	(7)
Home and career	200	(7)
CHAPTER 7 Niko's two worlds: Oxford in the 1960's	207	(60)
Dunes, birds, and beasts	208	(10)
The four whys	218	(4)
Walney	222	(3)
Serengeti	225	(4)
Photography and filming	229	(6)
Oxford academia again, Niko's other world	235	(12)
Writing, lecturing, and conferences	247	(5)
Ethology and humanity	252	(5)
The black dog, at home, at work, everywhere	257	(10)
CHAPTER 8 The Nobel Prize, and human behaviour	267	(18)
Nobel laureate	268	(6)
Childhood autism	274	(5)
The Alexander technique	279	(6)
CHAPTER 9 Winding down	285	(32)
Retirement	286	(13)
Old friends	299	(9)
A family, a cottage, a life	308	(9)
CHAPTER 10 Niko's legacy	317	(30)
An evaluation	318	(7)
Output: publications and impact	325	(2)
Rewards	327	(1)
Science that followed	328	(6)
Torch-bearers	334	(11)
Memories	345	(2)
Notes	347	(26)
Niko Tinbergen's publications	373	(12)
Index of proper names	385	(4)
Index of subjects	389