K. Z. Lorenz’s scientific contributions

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Taxis und Instinkthandlung in der Eirollbewegung der Graugans. I1
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April 2010

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Ethology

K. Z. Lorenz

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N. Tinbergen

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... Additional taxis movements are also involved in the egg rolling, as the goose can adjust the direction of the rolling with lateral movements of the neck. However, if the egg is removed, the bird continues to stretch and bend its neck performing the fixed action pattern in the empty air, without the adjusting lateral movements (Beer 2020;Lorenz and Tinbergen 1938). Other, usually more complex and longer behaviour sequences have a more stochastic nature, in which the behavioural elements follow each other according to various probabilities, and elements can even be omitted or changed. ...

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How do you do the things that you do? Ethological approach to the description of robot behaviour
Taxis und Instinkthandlung in der Eirollbewegung der Graugans. I1
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  • April 2010

Ethology