Niko Tinbergen

Also known as Nikolaas Tinbergen, N. Tinbergen, N Tinbergen, Tinbergen, Tinbergen N, Tinbergen N.

Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988)

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Niko Tinbergen was a Dutch scientist (1907-1988) who pioneered the study of animal behavior, establishing ethology as a scientific field by observing how animals behave in their natural environments. His work matters because it fundamentally changed how we understand why animals do what they do, replacing guesswork with careful observation and experimentation.

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Type: Person
Country: NL
Active from: 1985-01-11

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On aims and methods of Ethology
· 1963 · cited 3,049x

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Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen FRS (/ˈtɪnbɜːrɡən/ TIN-bur-gən, Dutch: [ˈnikoː(laːs) ˈtɪmbɛrɣə(n)]; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behaviour.

In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct, an influential book on animal behaviour. In the 1960s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook (1972) and Signals for Survival (1969), which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971.