Formulario konrad lorenz biography summary

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.

Formulario konrad lorenz biography summary

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. 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