Patterns of behavior
Subtitle: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology
By: Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 636
Description: Ethology, the study of animal behaviour, has emerged as a serious discipline only within the past century. This volume recounts the development of scientific interest in animals when they are alive, rather than dead on the dissecting table.