Table of Contents

Foreword by Sir Peter Medawar, FRS Introduction References to the Original Papers Section I: Observational and Interpretative Studies Author's notes 1. Comparative studies of the behaviour of gulls Section II: Field Experiments Author's notes 2. The homing of Philanthus triangulum 3. How Philanthus finds its prey 4. Landmark preference by homing Philanthus 5. The behaviour of the Grayling butterfly 6. Egg shell removal by the Black-headed Gull. I 7. Egg shell removal by the Black-headed Gull. II 8. Egg shell removal by the Black-headed Gull. III 9. Food hoarding by the Fox 10. Living scattered as a defence against predation

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Niko Tinbergen is one of the grand masters of ethology, and the papers published here are among its most important documents: they are a source-book for students of animal behaviour and will give the historian of ideas an insight into the early days of one of the most influential movements in modern science. -- Sir Peter Medawar

About the Author

Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Professor of Animal Behaviour and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. P. B. Medawar, an Oxford-trained biologist, received the 1960 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.

Reviews

Surely one of the most striking modern examples of the power of the Seeing Eye.
*American Scientist*

Niko Tinbergen is one of the founders and grandmasters of ethology, and the papers published here are among its most important documents. They are a source book for students of animal behavior and will give the historian of ideas an insight into one of the most influential movements in modern science.
*New York Review of Books*

Ethology is a young science, and there are still many questions to be debated about its basic theories and, of course, an almost unlimited field of fascinating new types of animal behavior to be observed. These two volumes of essays by one of the prime movers of the subject will remain part of the essential source material for many years to come.
*New York Times*

The publication of the Tinbergen papers is a service to a large and growing audience of scholars. These articles are not only of considerable historical value but to a remarkable extent retain their usefulness as a primary source of data and ideas.
*Edward O. Wilson, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University*