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An animalier (/ ˌ æ n ɪ m ə ˈ l ɪər, ˈ æ n ɪ m ə l ɪər /, UK also / ˌ æ n ɪ ˈ m æ l i eɪ /) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists.
An animal painter is an artist who specialises in (or is known for their skill in) the portrayal of animals. The OED dates the first express use of the term "animal painter" to the mid-18th century: by English physician , naturalist and writer John Berkenhout (1726–1791). [ 2 ]
Born in Clapham to parents James and Emma, [4] Brightwell studied at Lambeth School of Art in London and visited the Zoological Gardens. [5] He became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1906 as well as a member of the Marine Biological Association in 1922 and was commissioned by both and other institutions to make scientific drawings of various creatures including extinct animals.
Auguste-Henri Forel (French pronunciation: [oɡyst ɑ̃ʁi fɔʁɛl]; 1 September 1848 – 27 July 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, [1] notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants.
The book pioneered and popularized the attempt to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturance, primarily in ants (Wilson's own research specialty) and other Hymenoptera, but also in other animals. However, the influence of evolution on behavior has been of interest to biologists and ...
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975; 25th anniversary edition 2000) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson.It helped start the sociobiology debate, one of the great scientific controversies in biology of the 20th century and part of the wider debate about evolutionary psychology and the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology.
Morris's books include The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal, [3] published in 1967. The book sold well enough for Morris to move to Malta in 1968 to write a sequel and other books. In 1973 he returned to Oxford to work for the ethologist Niko Tinbergen . [ 4 ]
Animal studies became popular in the 1970s as an interdisciplinary subject, animal studies exists at the intersection of a number of different fields of study such as journals and books series, etc. [2] Different fields began to turn to animals as an important topic at different times and for various reasons, and these separate disciplinary histories shape how scholars approach animal studies.