Ethology of Qarzol hasaneh

Ethology of Mammals

which tend to capitalize on similarity rather than change. Time ranges of biologic rhythms are explored and an enormous variation is evident ranging from fractions of a second within an individual to millions of years in an evolutionary scale. The influence and interplay of exogenous and endogenous factors in such rhythms are discussed and abnormalities of rhythms are considered to be of fundam...

Ethology and Stress Diseases

Many of us have been surprised at the unconventional decision of the Nobel Foundation to award this year’s prize ‘for Physiology or Medicine’ to three men who had until recently been regarded as ‘mere animal watchers’. Since at least Konrad Lorenz and I could not really be described as physiologists, we must conclude that our scientia amabilis is now being acknowledged as an integral part of th...

Ethology and stress diseases.

Many of us have been surprised at the unconventional decision of the Nobel Foundation to award this year’s prize ‘for Physiology or Medicine’ to three men who had until recently been regarded as ‘mere animal watchers’. Since at least Konrad Lorenz and I could not really be described as physiologists, we must conclude that our scientia amabilis is now being acknowledged as an integral part of th...

Comparative Ethology of Solitary Wasps

Minding the Animals: Ethology a

What does it mean to be “human”? The question, though it has occupied some of the greatest Western minds of philosophy, science, history, and political theory, could not have been answered with any plausibility until recently, for we have only begin to acquire the scientific knowledge necessary to provide an informed response. At the same time, recent scientific and technological developments h...

History of ethology comes of age

The public profile of animal behavior research is out of all proportion to the number of biologists who engage in this kind of work, or the share of funding which they receive. The television genre of the ‘wildlife program’ was substantially shaped by the early contributions of Niko Tinbergen and his students, such as Desmond Morris at Granada Television. High-profile public controversies about...