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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13690

    Portrait of Niko Tinbergen and Hugh Falkus

    Date
    ca.1970
    Sitter
    Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
    Hugh Falkus (1917 - 1996, British)
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Niko Tinbergen and Hugh Falkus on the beach at Ravenglass, Cumbria, England. Falkus stands in right profile wearing a flat cap while Tinbergen stand face on and has a SLR camera around his neck.

    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.

    Hugh Falkus (1917-1996) British filmmaker, collaborated with Tinbergen on the film Signals for Survival, 1969.

    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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