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 […]
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Ethology and animal behaviour are two terms that are now considered synonymous. However, for a long time, they were not, leading to significant disputes in the scientific community and beyond. Let us explore the reasons why. Since the beginning of the last century, the study of animal and human behaviour […]