Niko’s Nature by Hans Kruuk, Oxford University Press, £20, ISBN 0198515588
THIS is a book that every behavioural biologist will want to read, and will do so with pleasure. I read Niko’s Nature from cover to cover and was informed, entertained and instructed the whole way. Who better to write about ethology and about the maestro Niko Tinbergen than Hans Kruuk, one of his many prominent students who with him helped shape the field, and whose influence continues in many directions?
Kruuk obviously highlights Tinbergen, but this is no less a record of the science of ethology and a directory…
