Sixty Years of Tinbergen’s Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal management, behavioural ecology, causation, conservation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny, zoo animal husbandry
2024
Abnormal repetitive behaviours in captive birds: a Tinbergian review
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: abnormal repetitive behaviour, bird welfare, causation, development, evolution, function
2018
Integrating Tinbergen’s inquiries: Mimicry and play in humans and other social mammals
Publication/Journal: Learning & Behavior
Keywords: apes, dogs, emotional contagion, ethological perspective, homo sapiens, monkeys, seals
2017
Begging response of gull chicks to the red spot on the parental bill
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: begging response, coadaptation, cross-fostering, larus michahellis, parent–offspring communication, parental signal, releasing mechanism, tinbergen, yellow-legged gull
2013
The development of behaviour- trends since Tinbergen (1963)
Publication/Journal: Animal Biology
Keywords: attachment, behavioral development, behavioural development, imprinting, language, motivational systems, song learning
2005
Why in earth? Dustbathing behaviour in jungle and domestic fowl reviewed from a Tinbergian and animal welfare perspective
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, causation, chicken, dustbathing, function, hen, ontogeny, phylogeny, poultry, welfare
2005
Behavioural processes affecting development: Tinbergen’s fourth question comes of age
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: behavior, behaviour, development, environmental selection, niche, parental effects, phenotype, reaction norm
2003
Homage to Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz: Is classical ethology relevant to zoos?
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: classical ethology, education, exhibits, zoo design
1989