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Tim Birkhead, Auteur ; Karl Schulze-Hagen, AuteurThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch in 1973 for their pioneering work during the 1930s and 1940s, in the study of animal behaviour. Lorenz established the foundations of etho[...]
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Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy. Looking to the skies above, we have variously worshipped them as gods, hunted them for sustenance,[...]
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Tim Birkhead, AuteurThere has been a long-standing debate about the post-hatching mode of development of the Great Auk's Pinguinus impennis single chick. Did it show an 'intermediate' pattern, leaving the colony at around one quarter of the adult's weight like its [...]
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Tim Birkhead, Auteurhe egg of the Common Guillemot Uria aalge is one of the most strikingly beautiful of all British breeding birds. Although colour and patterning are variable, it is typically a vivid blue. Equally striking is its pyriform shape, and the biologica[...]
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Karl Schulze-Hagen, Auteur ; Tim Birkhead, AuteurJohann Friedrich Naumann (1780-1857) was one of central Europe's most important ornithologists. His innovative approach extended beyond the museum -based taxonomical outlook typical of the time, and included perceptive observations of the ecolog[...]
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Tim Birkhead, Auteur ; Jo Wimpenny, Auteur ; Bob Montgomerie, Auteur
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Tim Birkhead, AuteurThe study of behaviour, much of it based on birds, became established in the first half of the twentieth century. At that time researchers were anxious that this new area of research should be both distinct and objective. They set clear boundari[...]
