Curious Naturalists

Dr. Niko Tinbergen was well known as a naturalist and a student of animal behaviour in England, on the Continent and in the United States. Ever since he was a young student in Holland he had been curious about nature, and in this book he sets out some of the facts that 25 years of curiosity gave him.

As a biologist, anything living was his province—the bee-killing wasps and the digger wasps of the ...