What is Niko Tinbergen?
{{Nobelprize|Physiology or Medicine}} {{Infobox Scientist | name = Niko Tinbergen | image =NikoTinbergen.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1907|4|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]] | nationality = [[Netherlands|Dutch]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1988|12|21|1907|4|15|df=y}} | death_place = <!--insert location of death--> | field = [[Zoology|Zoologist]], [[Ethology|ethologist]] | work_institution = [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] | alma_mater = [[Leiden University]] | doctoral_advisor = <!--please insert--> | doctoral_students = [[Richard Dawkins]] <br> [[Aubrey Manning]] <br> [[Desmond Morris]] | known_for = [[Hans Baruch#Post World War II|Hawk/goose effect]]<br>[[Tinbergen's four questions|Four questions]] | prizes = Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973) | religion = | footnotes = }} '''Nikolaas 'Niko' Tinbergen''' (15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[ethology|ethologist]] and [[Ornithology|ornithologist]] who shared the 1973 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] with [[Karl von Frisch]] and [[Konrad Lorenz]]. Their discoveries were about individual and social behaviour patterns, and how they are triggered. In the 1960s Niko collaborated on a series of [[wildlife]] movies, including ''The Riddle of the [[Rook]]'' (1972) and ''Signals for Survival'' (1969), which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971. == Aspects of his life == Niko, who had two eminent brothers, Luuk and [[Jan Tinbergen|Jan]], was a prisoner of war during [[World War II]]. His experience as a prisoner of the [[Nazi]]s led to some friction with longtime intellectual collaborator Konrad Lorenz, and it was several years before the two reconciled. After the war, Tinbergen moved to England, where he taught at the [[University of Oxford]]. He remained in England for the rest of his life. Several of his Oxford graduate students went on to become prominent biologists; these include [[Ri