Curious Naturalists
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Curious Naturalists

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Curious Naturalists

About this book

Dr. Niko Tinbergen was well known as a naturalist and a student of animal behaviour in England, on the Continent and in the United States. Ever since he was a young student in Holland he had been curious about nature, and in this book he sets out some of the facts that 25 years of curiosity gave him.
As a biologist, anything living was his provinceā€”the bee-killing wasps and the digger wasps of the Dutch sand dunes; the Snow Bruntings and Phalaropes of Greenland; Hobbies and other hawks; moths and butterflies in various parts of England and Holland; Black-headed Gulls of the Ravenglass nature reserve, Cumberland, the Kittiwakes and Eider Ducks of the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland.
Readers cannot fail to be struckā€”and possibly sometimes amusedā€”by the patience and ingenuity shown in the field studies undertaken by Dr. Tinbergen and his fellow naturalistsā€”and which are now passed on for the benefit and interest of his readers. The studies were always undertaken seriously, but this did not prevent Dr. Tinbergen from writing about them in the liveliest way; he realised that quite often he and his friends must have seemed to onlookers to be very curious naturalists indeed.

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Information

Publisher
Muriwai Books
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781787209015
Edition
0
Subtopic
Zoology

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  4. PREFACE
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. CHAPTER ONE-THE BEE-HUNTERS OF HULSHORST
  8. CHAPTER TWO-ARCTIC INTERLUDE
  9. CHAPTER THREE-SNOW BUNTINGS AND PHALAROPES
  10. CHAPTER FOUR-BACK TO THE BEE-HUNTERS
  11. CHAPTER FIVE-SWIFTER THAN SWIFTS
  12. CHAPTER SIX-THE SAND WASPS
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN-STUDIES OF CAMOUFLAGE
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT-DEFENCE BY COLOUR
  15. CHAPTER NINE-BARK WITH WINGS
  16. CHAPTER TEN-CAMBERWELL BEAUTIES
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN-CLIFF DWELLERS
  18. CHAPTER TWELVE-BLACK-HEADED GULLS, 1
  19. CHAPTER THIRTEEN-BLACK-HEADED GULLS, 2
  20. CHAPTER FOURTEEN-EIDER INVASION
  21. CHAPTER FIFTEEN-INSECTS AND FLOWERS
  22. CHAPTER SIXTEEN-CURIOUS NATURALISTS
  23. REFERENCES
  24. REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER