Essential reading? Kruuk’s recent biography of animal behaviourist, Nobel prizewinner and friend Niko Tinbergen, Niko’s Nature (Oxford), left him “tremendously impressed” once more by Tinbergen’s The Study of Instinct (Oxford, 1951): “It provides such a lucid and enthusiastic rationale for studying the behaviour of animals. I feel every biologist should be aware of Tinbergen’s four different ways of asking the question ‘why?'”
For the plane? For many years Kruuk lived and worked in Africa. On his last visit he took Paul Theroux’s Dark Star Safari (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). Theroux’s “utterly compelling account of the changes since the 1960s,…
