King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian ethologist, is not your typical science book in that it is written with a less-scientific audience in mind. There is a fun section on dogs and how their behavior is influenced by their wolf or jackal ancestors. For example after observing two doves tear each other apart in when he put them together in a cage for breeding purposes he writes, "Only in two other instances have I seen similar horrible lacerations inflicted on their own kind by vertebrates: once, as an observer of the embittered fights of cichlid fishes who sometimes actually skin each other, and again as a field surgeon, in the late war, where the highest of all vertebrates perpetrated mass mutilations on members of his own species." I would recommend this book to anyone interested in animal behavior or animals in general. Although the book is about his observations of the animals, there are times when he allows how the war affected him to seep into the writing. He was German and much of his research was done in the 1930s and beyond. One thing I found especially interesting is how World War II seemed to have affected Lorenz. The writing of the books is observational rather than scientific and very accessible to someone without a science background. In this book, Lorenz tells the reader about his observations of a number of animal species.
Although he raised the animals and kept them at his home, he gave them free range of his home and the world around him in order to get a more realistic view of their behavior in their natural environment. Konrad Lorenz was an ethologist (someone who studies animal behavior) who raised many animals at his home to study. Urn:lcp:kingsolomonsring0000konr_p0u3:lcpdf:4d499d7f-2d2c-4ddc-bd87-d57e8bbea426 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier kingsolomonsring0000konr_p0u3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s29d4vpfbpb Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9915 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA17433 Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 85.77 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20221123165855 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 264 Scandate 20221121094612 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5.King Solomon's Ring is considered a classic on the subject of animal behavior.
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