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unusual facts about Ethology


Johann Heinrich Zorn

He played a significant role in the dissemination of Ornithology in Germany even though his ethological did not continue until the 20th century.


Anne Rasa

From 1986-1991 Anne Rasa was Associate Professor at Pretoria University, South Africa, teaching ethology (lectures and practicals) and starting her studies on Yellow mongoose in the Kalahari Desert.

Danilo Mainardi

Since 1973 he has directed the School of Ethology of the Scientific cultural center Ettore Majorana in Erice.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861), French zoologist who coined the term ethology, son of Étienne Saint-Hilaire

Gerard Baerends

Gerardus Pieter Baerends (March 30, 1916 - September 1, 1999) was a Dutch biologist and one of the most important representatives of the so-called classical ethology in the tradition of Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.

Italian Horse Protection Association

The IHP collaborates with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Perugia for the research on Equine Infectious Anemia and equine ethology, and with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pisa for internships on horses in freedom.

Kurt Fabri

Fabri returned to scientific work in 1964 as an animal behavior researcher at the Biophysics Institute at Pushchino-na-Oke and joined the faculty of Moscow State University as lecturer in ethology in 1966.

Longhorn crazy ant

In 1991, in the large closed dome of the research station Biosphere 2 in the Arizona Desert, no particular ant species was dominant.

Wolfgang Wickler

As of 1974, he led the ethological department of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen near Starnberg and he took over as director of the institute in 1975.


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