Curious Naturalists: Revised Edition
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few scientists have possessed both the rigorous mind of a Nobel laureate and the storytelling gift to make animal behaviour genuinely thrilling — Niko Tinbergen was one of them. Curious Naturalists chronicles the fieldwork and discoveries of Tinbergen and his colleagues as they observe wasps navigating their burrows, gulls signalling to their chicks, and stickleback fish locked in territorial combat, all rendered with the immediacy and wonder of a naturalist who never lost his sense of boyish curiosity. The book presents a vivid portrait of ethology — the study of animal behaviour in the wild — through a series of richly detailed accounts drawn from decades of painstaking observation across the heathlands of Holland and beyond. Tinbergen, who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, writes with a clarity and warmth that bridges the gap between academic rigour and popular science, illustrating how patient observation of the natural world can unlock profound insights into evolution and instinct. This revised edition stands as both a landmark text in the history of biology and an irresistible invitation to look more closely at the creatures that share our world — one is left wondering what extraordinary dramas are unfolding just beyond our inattentive gaze.
Author: Niko Tinbergen
Format: Paperback
Genre: Natural history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few scientists have possessed both the rigorous mind of a Nobel laureate and the storytelling gift to make animal behaviour genuinely thrilling — Niko Tinbergen was one of them. Curious Naturalists chronicles the fieldwork and discoveries of Tinbergen and his colleagues as they observe wasps navigating their burrows, gulls signalling to their chicks, and stickleback fish locked in territorial combat, all rendered with the immediacy and wonder of a naturalist who never lost his sense of boyish curiosity. The book presents a vivid portrait of ethology — the study of animal behaviour in the wild — through a series of richly detailed accounts drawn from decades of painstaking observation across the heathlands of Holland and beyond. Tinbergen, who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, writes with a clarity and warmth that bridges the gap between academic rigour and popular science, illustrating how patient observation of the natural world can unlock profound insights into evolution and instinct. This revised edition stands as both a landmark text in the history of biology and an irresistible invitation to look more closely at the creatures that share our world — one is left wondering what extraordinary dramas are unfolding just beyond our inattentive gaze.