Konrad lorenz biography pdf
Konrad Lorenz (Konard Zacharisa Lorenz) was born on November 7, in Vienna, Austria.
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (KL) was born in Altenberg /Austria on Nov. 7 as the last of three children of Emma Lorenz and Dr. Adolf Lorenz, professor for..
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist (1903–1989)
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (AustrianGerman pronunciation:[ˈkɔnʁaːdtsaxaˈʁiːasˈloːʁɛnts]ⓘ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist.
He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.[1]
Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws.
Releasing Mechanism which for nearly 40 years dominated the ethological landscape and influencedthe directions and content of ethological research and theory.Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. birds that leave their nest early) bond instinctively with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching.
Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as