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Born August 29, 1947 (age 77) • Boston • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study animal behaviour • autism • stress • slaughtering

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Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist
C. Lloyd Morgan
British zoologist and psychologist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist
Charles Henry Turner.
Charles Henry Turner
American scientist
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psychologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
G. Stanley Hall.
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist
Bruno Bettelheim
American psychologist
Jack Hanna
Jack Hanna
American zoologist and television personality
Dixy Lee Ray.
Dixy Lee Ray
American zoologist and government official
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey
American zoologist
William McDougall
American psychologist
Richard B. Goldschmidt
German-born American zoologist
Leo Kanner
Austrian-American psychiatrist
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist

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