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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13655

    Portrait of Niko Tinbergen and Lary Shaffer

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
    Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Niko Tinbergen and Lary Shaffer filming animal tracks on Walney Island beach. Niko operates a cine-camera as Lary looks on smoking a pipe.

    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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