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Konrad Lorenz biography
Ethology - Imprinting

Konrad Lorenz (Konrad Zacharias Lorenz) was born on November 7, 1903 in Vienna, Austria. As a little boy, he loved animals and had a collection that included fish, dogs, monkeys, insects, ducks, and geese. His interest in animal behaviour was intense. When he was 10 years old, Lorenz became aware of the existence of the Theory of Evolution through reading a book by Wilhelm Bölsche in which he was fascinated by a picture of an Archaeopteryx. Evolution gave him insight - his father had explained that the word "insect" was derived from the notches, the "incisions" between the segments - if reptiles could become birds, annelid worms could develop into insects.

As he grew towards adulthood he wanted to become a paleontologist, however, he reluctantly followed his father's wishes, and studied medicine at the University of Vienna and at Columbia University. He later regarded this compliance to have been in his own best interests as one of his teachers of anatomy, Ferdinand Hochstetter, proved to be a brilliant comparative anatomist and
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Konrad Lorenz

Austrian zoologist (1903–1989)

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (AustrianGerman pronunciation:[ˈkɔnʁaːdtsaxaˈʁiːasˈloːʁɛnts]ⓘ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.[1]

Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. birds that leave their nest early) bond instinctively with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching. Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as an instinctive bond. In 1936, he met Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as

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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz

* 7 November 1903 in Vienna, † 27 Februar 1989

Konrad Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist. Together with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1973.

When Konrad Lorenz retired from his directorship at the German Max Planck Society's Institute for Behavioural Physiology at Seewiesen in 1973, at the age of 70, he returned to Austria and searched for a place to continue studying the behavioural ecology of his habituated greylag goose flock. Otto König introduced Konrad Lorenz to HM Ernst August (Duke of Cumberland), who invited him to Grünau. Buildings were adapted, ponds created, and soon Lorenz and coworkers started to move the geese from Seewiesen to Grünau. With support from the Cumberland Foundation, he founded the Konrad Lorenz Research Center for Behaviour and Cognition (Upper Austrian Almtal, in A-4645 Grünau, Fischerau 13; now a Core Facility of the University of Vienna, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology) and established

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