Social Behaviour in Animals
by N. Tinbergen
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Originally published in 1953, this is a classic study in animal behaviour, drawing on the author's own extraordinary studies of insects, fish, and birds, as well as on the literature. The concept 'community' is taken in its widest sense to include all types of association of individuals, not only flocks and herds, but also the family, the pair, and even two animals engaged in combat. The author received the Nobel Prize for his work in this field in 1973.Tags
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Indeholder "Dr. phil. Holger Poulsen: Forord til den danske udgave", "1. Indledning", " Sølvmågen", " Den trepiggede hundestejle", " Klitsommerfuglen", " Typer på socialt samvirke", "2. Parrings-adfærd", " Parringsadfærdens biologiske betydning", " Nogle eksempler på synkronisering", " Overtalelse og beroligelse", " Lokalisering af parrings-partnernes adfærd", " Parringens begrænsning til artsfæller", " Sammenfatning", "3. Familie og Gruppeliv", " Familieliv", " Gruppe-adfærd", "4. Kamp", " Rivalkampe", " Rivalkampens betydning for arten", " Grundene til at dyrene kæmper", " Hakkeordenen", "5. Analyse af det sociale samvirke", " Sammenfatning af det foregående", " Aktorens fremfærd", " Reaktorens adfærd", " Udløserne", " show more Sammenfatning og konklusion", "6. Forholdet mellem artsforskellige dyr", " Udløsning af reaktioner", " Udløsninger der søges undgået", "7. Den sociale organisations vækst", " Udspaltning og opbygning", " Måder på hvilke de sociale bånd knyttes", " Den videre udvikling", " Sammenfatning og konklusion", " Regulering", "8. Den sociale organisation set i udviklingens lys", " Den sammenlignende metode", " Sammenligning mellem sociale systemer", " Sammenligning mellem udløsere", " Sammenfatning og konklusion", "9. Nogle råd til den vordende dyre-sociolog", "Litteratur", "Register".
Niko Tinbergen har begået en glimrende bog om dyrs adfærd i sociale sammenhænge. show less
Niko Tinbergen har begået en glimrende bog om dyrs adfærd i sociale sammenhænge. show less
Apr 5, 2013 (Edited)Danish
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Nikolaas Tinbergen, a Dutch zoologist, with the Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz founded the field of modern ethology---the study of animals in their natural surroundings. The two men shared the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine with Karl von Frisch (see Vol. 5) in 1973. Convinced of the sterility of much contemporary comparative and show more experimental psychology, and appalled at the far-reaching generalizations made by psychologists on the basis of observations of a few species of caged rodents, Tinbergen set out to study a few highly specific problems in animal behavior: the nature of the stickleback's courtship, the stimuli causing a young herring gull to beg for food, and the reasons gulls bother to remove empty eggshells from their nests. His influential book The Study of Instinct (1951) had a tremendous impact on the development of ethology. Ethologists believe that instinct is a motivational basis for human behavior as well as for animal behavior and hence that ethological studies have valid human applications. Tinbergen is particularly concerned that human beings are in danger of losing their ability to adapt because of the very rapid changes taking place in contemporary society. He thinks there is much we can learn from close study of animal adaptation. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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