Hardcover - 1953 - First Edition (no other editions listed) Green boards are square with sharp corners, little or no wear, binding is tight. Text block has some foxing as do some of the pages but does not interfer with the text. No dust jacket.

Herring Gull's World: Study of the Social Behaviour of Birds (Collins New Naturalist)

Science & Math

Tinbergen, Niko

Biological Sciences

Basic Books

, 362 pages, 79 black and white photographic plates

Autistic children: New hope for a cure

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Allen& Unwin

Book by Tinbergen, Niko, Tinbergen, Elisabeth A.

Autistic Children: New Hope for a Cure

Tinbergen, Elisabeth A.

Unwin Hyman

Nikolaas Tinbergen won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for his pioneering studies in animal behavior. The Study of Instinct, Tinbergen's first major work, introduced the subject of ethology to an American audience more than forty years ago, and it is still considered one of the best introductions to the field.  Long out of print, this reissue of the 1969 edition allows a new generation of readers to explore this classic for themselves.       In The Study of Instinct, Tinbergen attempts to organize the study of animal behavior into a coherent whole, focusing on how animals behave in response to stimuli, how physical and neurological characteristics shape instinct, how individual animals develop behavioral patterns, and how they adapt to changing conditions.  He  illustrates his discussion with fascinating examples taken from his own and other scientists' study of animals.   Many of his renowned experiments using models of animals to test hypotheses about behavior are described, including his well-known study of the stickleback fish, in which he shows that it is indeed the red color of their undersides that allows males to single each other out for attack during their springtime competition.  Tinbergen concludes with an extensive discussion of evolutionary aspects of behavior.       The insights contained in this book paved the way for significant breakthroughs in our understanding of how animals behave in the wild. Anyone interested in the natural world, the behavior of animals, or ecology will find this book essential reading.

Study of Instinct

Clarendon P.

The Study of Instinct

Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long recognised Professor Tinbergen's great prescience in placing the study of animal behaviour firmly in an ecological and evolutionary context nearly fifty years ago. This is a reprint of the 1969 edition of The Study of Instinct (originally published in 1951). The first six chapters cover behaviour as a response to stimuli, the neurophysiological bases of innate behaviour as then understood, and the development of behavioural patterns in individuals. The final two chapters are devoted to the adaptativeness of behaviour and evolutionary aspects of behaviour. These last two chapters have particularly withstood the test of time. 'More than the other parts,' the author wrote in 1969, 'they show the potential of studying animals in their natural environment, i.e. in the environment that exerts the pressures which each animal species has to meet...I feel very strongly that an. . . intense effort ought to be made to understand the effects of behaviour; of the ways in which it influences the survival of the species; and that we should try much harder to understand the state of adaptedness and the process of evolutionary adaptation.' Tinbergen's insights undoubtedly paved the way for significant observational, experimental, and theoretical advances in behavioural ecology and evolution over the past two decades. This book is reissued to make it available to a new generation of researchers and students.

The Study Of Instinct

Oxford Univ Pr (T)

A Selective Study Of The Behavior Of Birds, Insects, And Animals In Their Environment.

Curious Naturalists.

Doubleday/Anchor

The Animal in Its World Explorations of an Ethologist 1932-1972: Laboratory Experiments & General Papers, Vol. 2

Harvard University Press

The study of instinct

Norwood Editions

Enthusiastic and informal accounts of the exciting discoveries and fascinating observations made by naturalists in the study of the behavior of animals in their natural surroundings

Curious Naturalists

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History & Criticism

University of Massachusetts Press

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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