NOUN
- Dutch economist noted for his work in econometrics (1903-1994)
- Dutch zoologist who showed that much animal behavior is innate and stereotyped (1907-1988)
How To Use Tinbergen In A Sentence
- Back in the 1950s, Dutch ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen conducted now-classic studies of the bird's incubation behavior and discovered something astonishing: When presented with a choice between brooding its own small egg and the giant egg of a much larger bird, the oystercatcher invariably chose to sit on the giant one. From 'The End of Overeating'
- Their breeding behaviour and how they and their chicks respond to stimuli is tremendously well studied, with the studies of Goethe, Tinbergen and others being classic, pioneering works in ethology. Archive 2006-02-01
- Is my enjoyment of Picasso really illuminated, as Dr. Ramachandran claims, by ethologist Niko Tinbergen's demonstration that gull chicks prefer fake maternal beaks with too many stripes to the real thing? The Mind in the Mirror
- Sixty years ago the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen noticed a stickleback fish aggressively displaying toward the window of his fish tank.
- In another experiment, Tinbergen showed that a mother oystercatcher, a shorebird, may make an equally strange choice. Birdology
- Tinbergen's pioneer work in econometrics has been of major importance for subsequent methodological development. The Prize in Economics 1969 - Presentation Speech
- In another experiment, Tinbergen showed that a mother oystercatcher, a shorebird, may make an equally strange choice. Birdology
- He received his BA in Zoology from Oxford and his PhD from Bristol before doing a post-doctorate with future Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen at the Wildfowl Trust.
