Portrait of Niko Tinbergen
Date
1969
Sitter
Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
Creator
Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
Subject
Description
Full length portrait of Niko Tinbergen taken at the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group’s field camp, Walney Island, Cumbria, England. He is standing in right profile and balancing a tall wooden post on his chin.
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.
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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