Patterns of behavior : Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2005], ©2005.

xii, 636 pages : illustrations portraits ; 24 cm

Introduction : theory, practice, and place in the study of animal behavior -- Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the biological study of animal behavior in America -- British field studies of behavior : Selous, Howard, Kirkman, and Huxley -- Konrad Lorenz and the conceptual foundations of ethology -- Niko Tinbergen and the Lorenzian program -- Lorenz and national socialism -- The postwar reconstruction of ethology -- Ethology's new settings -- Attracting attention -- Tinbergen's vision for ethology -- Conclusion : ethology's ecologies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-607) and index.