Niko's nature : the life of Niko Tinbergen and his science of animal behaviour / Hans Kruuk ; with drawings and photographs by Niko Tinbergen

Niko Tinbergen
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Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( 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 Instin
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50 years of the Nobel Prize to Lorenz, Tinbergen, and von Frisch: integrating behavioral function into an ethology for the 21st century