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adaptation and survival strategies
amphibian and reptile studies
anecdotal nature studies
animal behavior studies
animal cognition studies
animal communication and signaling
animal intelligence and problem-solving
animal interaction and social behavior
animal tracking and monitoring
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behavioral ecology insights
behavioral patterns in mammals
biodiversity and species interactions
bird behavior and song
carnivore and herbivore interactions
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conservation through understanding behavior
daily life of animals
documenting wildlife routines
ecological context of behavior
ecological fieldwork experiences
engaging science writing
environmental and ecological awareness
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ethological field notes
ethology for general readers
field observations of wildlife
foraging and feeding habits
group and herd behavior
habitat-specific animal studies
human-nature connection
immersive wildlife research experiences
informal scientific accounts
insect and invertebrate behavior
mating and reproductive behavior
migration and seasonal movements
natural history storytelling
naturalist exploration narratives
observation-based animal research
outdoor exploration and discovery
parental care in animals
popular natural history
predator-prey dynamics
primate social organization
seasonal behavior patterns
species-specific behavior profiles
stories from naturalists
studying animals in the wild
territoriality in wildlife
wildlife behavior documentation
wildlife ecology narratives
wildlife observation techniques
Product details
- ISBN 9780870234569
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 112 x 181mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 1984
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dr. Niko Tinbergen was well known as a naturalist and a student of animal behaviour in England, on the Continent and in the United States. Ever since he was a young student in Holland he had been curious about nature, and in this book he sets out some of the facts that 25 years of curiosity gave him.
As a biologist, anything living was his province—the bee-killing wasps and the digger wasps of the Dutch sand dunes; the Snow Bruntings and Phalaropes of Greenland; Hobbies and other hawks; moths and butterflies in various parts of England and Holland; Black-headed Gulls of the Ravenglass nature reserve, Cumberland, the Kittiwakes and Eider Ducks of the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland.
Readers cannot fail to be struck—and possibly sometimes amused—by the patience and ingenuity shown in the field studies undertaken by Dr. Tinbergen and his fellow naturalists—and which are now passed on for the benefit and interest of his readers. The studies were always undertaken seriously, but this did not prevent Dr. Tinbergen from writing about them in the liveliest way; he realised that quite often he and his friends must have seemed to onlookers to be very curious naturalists indeed.
As a biologist, anything living was his province—the bee-killing wasps and the digger wasps of the Dutch sand dunes; the Snow Bruntings and Phalaropes of Greenland; Hobbies and other hawks; moths and butterflies in various parts of England and Holland; Black-headed Gulls of the Ravenglass nature reserve, Cumberland, the Kittiwakes and Eider Ducks of the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland.
Readers cannot fail to be struck—and possibly sometimes amused—by the patience and ingenuity shown in the field studies undertaken by Dr. Tinbergen and his fellow naturalists—and which are now passed on for the benefit and interest of his readers. The studies were always undertaken seriously, but this did not prevent Dr. Tinbergen from writing about them in the liveliest way; he realised that quite often he and his friends must have seemed to onlookers to be very curious naturalists indeed.
