Konrad Lorenz

Part of the accomplishment of early ethologists such as Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and Karl Von Frisch was to show that behaviors evolve by natural selection, just like morphological, physiological, and life history traits.

David Sloan Wilson: Evolution and War: Back to Basics 2009

In fact, today it is the condition of overpopulation insanity, media obsession, gluttony, druggedness, genetic feedback as Konrad Lorenz wrote of, and drinking from rivers polluted not only by pathogens, but as importantly, with synthetic hormones.

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This, incidentally, was a point made by the famed ethologist Konrad Lorenz in his 1963 book, On Aggression, when he declared that social animals possess "mechanisms" that inhibit lethal aggression against their own kind.

Dale Peterson: Animals Have Morality, too! Dale Peterson 2011

As all exile Tibetans had till then considered themselves to be engaged in a life-and-death freedom struggle, some kind of "displacement activity" as Konrad Lorenz would have put it had to provided for them to deal with the new reality.

Jamyang Norbu: Seeking the Power of the Powerless Jamyang Norbu 2011

As all exile Tibetans had till then considered themselves to be engaged in a life-and-death freedom struggle, some kind of "displacement activity" as Konrad Lorenz would have put it had to provided for them to deal with the new reality.

Jamyang Norbu: Seeking the Power of the Powerless Jamyang Norbu 2011

This, incidentally, was a point made by the famed ethologist Konrad Lorenz in his 1963 book, On Aggression, when he declared that social animals possess "mechanisms" that inhibit lethal aggression against their own kind.

Dale Peterson: Animals Have Morality, too! Dale Peterson 2011

Even Konrad Lorenz was appalled when, hoping to breed a cross between a turtledove and a ring-necked dove, he put these two symbols of peace together in a spacious cage, only to find two days later that the female had flayed the male within an inch of his life.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Konrad Lorenz even observed such mindless behavior in his tame jackdaws, crow-like birds who sometimes demonstrated their affection for him by bringing worms to his mouth when he refused to eat them, the birds would resolutely stuff them in his ears.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Konrad Lorenz, the Nobel laureate credited with founding the modern study of animal behavior, called it imprinting.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

This appears to be an example of what Konrad Lorenz once characterized as a distinctly human form of instinctive aggressive behavior: “militant enthusiasm”.

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