Authors: Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson
ISBN-13: 9780415267472, ISBN-10: 0415267471
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: REV
Konrad Lorenz (1903-89). Pioneering and world-renowned scientist of animal behaviour. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Psychology in 1973.
Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write (and indeed draw) beautifully. He did more than any other person to establish and popularize the study of how animals behave, receiving a Nobel Prize for his work. King Solomon's Ring, the book which brought him worldwide recognition, is a delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves. Charmingly illustrated by Lorenz himself, this book is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends, a world which often provides an uncanny resemblance to our own. A must for any animal-lover!
This wise and beautiful book . bears upon every page the imprint of a profound, humane and questing mind.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Animals as a Nuisance | 1 |
2 | Something that Does No Damage: the Aquarium | 9 |
3 | Robbery in the Aquarium | 16 |
4 | Poor Fish | 21 |
5 | Laughing at Animals | 38 |
6 | Pitying Animals | 48 |
7 | Buying Animals | 56 |
8 | The Language of Animals | 73 |
9 | The Taming of the Shrew | 88 |
10 | The Covenant | 108 |
11 | The Perennial Retainers | 122 |
12 | Morals and Weapons | 170 |
Index | 189 |