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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13689

    Group portrait of the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
    Peter McPhail
    Barbara MacRoberts, Ethologist
    Michael H MacRoberts, 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 group portrait of (from left to right as viewed) Barbara MacRoberts, Peter McPhail, Mike MacRoberts and Niko Tinbergen, walking down a road near Hardknott Roman Fort, Cumbria, England.

    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    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.

    Barbara MacRoberts, botanist, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Michael H MacRoberts, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Peter McPhail, field assistant to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    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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