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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13648

    Portrait of Nikolaas Tinbergen

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Niko Tinbergen on the beach at Walney Island, Cumbria, England. Tinbergen is occupied in photographing animal tracks and is shown in profile, holding a camera.

    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer at the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group’s Walney Island Field Camp.

    Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.

    Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976

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