According to Konrad Lorenz, Charles Otis Whitman and Oskar Heinroth, the first American and the other German, were two significant precursors of the modern study of animal behaviour. Active in the early 1900s, they were interested in birds. While Whitman wrote a monumental work on the pigeon (Columba livia), ducks […]
Cichlids
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In every branch of science, a careful and complete description of observed phenomena must precede experimental study. The study of behaviour is certainly no exception to this requirement.When studying a species, however, achieving a comprehensive understanding of its behaviour is a challenging task. It requires patient observation and objective description […]