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The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Signs and Signals

Nature

Run Time: 53 mins

Air Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1982

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PBS

Season 1 - Episode 12

The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Signs and Signals

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Continuing with the exploration of animal communication we see recreations of Karl von Frisch unraveling the language of honey bees. Julian Huxley, who discovered a possible language in the ritual movements of great-crested grebes, Konrad Lorenz who recorded the visual language of geese, and Niko Tinbergen, who studied the habits of hunting wasps and together with Esther Cullen recorded the relationship of temperament in birds to their habitat.

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