The 'Konrad Lorenz Duck Film Collection': a monument to methodology and history of science re-discovered

摘要

Two hundred reels of 16-mm film, containing records of a variety of behavior patterns, mostly of dabbling ducks and geese, were discovered in the spring of 2010 in the attic of the Lorenz mansion in Altenberg--original footage, most of them taken by Konrad Lorenz himself, between 1950 and 1958 at his research station in Buldern (Westphalia, Germany) and at the Severn Wildfowl Trust in Slimbridge [Great Britain (now The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust)]. These films are now available for further analysis at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg Austria.