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Konrad Lorenz


Born
in Vienna, Austria
November 07, 1903

Died
February 27, 1989

Genre
Science


Konrad Zacharias Lorenz 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, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. 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 ...more

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“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”
― Konrad Lorenz
tags: experts, philosophy
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“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog”
― Konrad Lorenz
tags: dogs
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“The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this Earth can ever be.”
― Konrad Lorenz
tags: dogs-and-humans
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