Book contents
- Much Like Us
- Much Like Us
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Typical Human, Typical Animal?
- Chapter 2 Ginger Boris Doesn’t Like to Be Alone
- Chapter 3 Cats Are Happy When They’re Playing
- Chapter 4 Nature Versus Nurture
- Chapter 5 Clever Dogs and Ingenious Ravens
- Chapter 6 Animal Personalities
- Chapter 7 Altruistic Squirrels and Egotistical Lions
- Chapter 8 Animals Like Us
- Bibliography
Chapter 2 - Ginger Boris Doesn’t Like to Be Alone
On Behaviour, Stress, and the Blessing of Socially Stable Relationships
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2022
- Much Like Us
- Much Like Us
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Typical Human, Typical Animal?
- Chapter 2 Ginger Boris Doesn’t Like to Be Alone
- Chapter 3 Cats Are Happy When They’re Playing
- Chapter 4 Nature Versus Nurture
- Chapter 5 Clever Dogs and Ingenious Ravens
- Chapter 6 Animal Personalities
- Chapter 7 Altruistic Squirrels and Egotistical Lions
- Chapter 8 Animals Like Us
- Bibliography
Summary
In the mid-1970s, I joined the first cohort of students studying biology at the newly founded university in Bielefeld. In those days there were only about 30 to 40 of us students and about three professors, one of whom was Klaus Immelmann. Professor Immelmann had recently been called to serve as the first chair for animal behaviour at a German university, and his goal was to make Bielefeld a hub of behavioural biology research and teaching. He quickly succeeded. The facilities in his department were phenomenal, even by international standards. It was an exciting time: the campus was populated by various species of finches, parrots, geese, marmosets, kangaroos, deer, and rodents living in spacious indoor and outdoor enclosures. The founders of behavioural biology, Lorenz, Tinbergen, and von Frisch, had just received the Nobel Prize. There was a spirit of optimism in our eastern province of Westphalia.
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- Much Like UsWhat Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals, pp. 16 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022