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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13653

    Portrait of Niko and Elisabeth Tinbergen

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen (1912 - 1990) , née Rutten, Chemist
    Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full-length portrait of Niko and Elisabeth Tinbergen filming animal tracks on the beach, Walney Island, Cumbria. Niko is operating a cine-camera on the left and Elisabeth kneels on the sand to the right as viewed.

    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.

    Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen, née Rutten, (1912-1990), chemist.

    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
    Colour transparency of Niko Tinbergen and Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.
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