He talked to the animals. (ethologist Konrad Lorenz) (obituary)

U.S. News & World Report | March 13, 1989 | Copyright

Konrad Lorenz is best known as the man who amused the world and advanced science by walking like a goose and thereby convincing goslings he was their mother. But the 1973 Nobel Prize winner, who died last week at age 85, may be remembered just as long by admirers for illuminating the issue of why people kill one another so readily.

When the famed Austrian ethologist wasn't tracing homicide's evolutionary roots, he was studying a wide array of mammals, birds and fish in their natural environments. To demonstrate how baby animals bond with their mothers, he could ...

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