Patterns of behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology

Introduction : theory, practice, and place in the study of animal behavior

Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the biological study of animal behavior in America

British field studies of behavior : Selous, Howard, Kirkman, and Huxley

Konrad Lorenz and the conceptual foundations of ethology

Niko Tinbergen and the Lorenzian program

Lorenz and national socialism

The postwar reconstruction of ethology

Ethology's new settings

Attracting attention

Tinbergen's vision for ethology

Conclusion : ethology's ecologies.