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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13699

    Group portrait of Joost Tinbergen, Niko Tinbergen and Ruth Rose

    Date
    1971
    Sitter
    Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
    Joost Tinbergen (1950, Dutch) , Ecologist
    Ruth Rose (British)
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Group portrait of Niko Tinbergen with his nephew Joost Tinbergen and Ruth Rose at Ravenglass, Cumbria, England. They are crouched down looking at the ground, Tinbergen holds a tobacco tin in his left hand.

    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.

    Ruth Rose, wife of Ravenglass reverse warden Jimmy Rose.

    Joost Tinbergen (B.1950) Dutch ecologist and nephew of Niko Tinbergen.

    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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