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Animal communication: ideas derived from Tiribergen’s activities

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The Tinbergen Legacy

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When I was a new research student in the late 1960s, four things struck me about Niko Tinbergen. The first was the breadth of his approach. I personally benefited greatly from this because I wanted to study a problem in population ecology and I ended up in his Animal Behaviour Group. Niko quite rightly saw no real distinction between the study of behaviour and the study of ecology.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK

    John R. Krebs

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Krebs, J.R. (1991). Animal communication: ideas derived from Tiribergen’s activities. In: Dawkins, M., Halliday, T., Dawkins, R. (eds) The Tinbergen Legacy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-35156-8_5

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