Donald Griffin

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Donald Redfield Griffin

Born August 3, 1915 (1915-08-03)
Died November 7, 2003 (aged 88)
Nationality United States
Fields Zoology
Known for Animal echolocation

Donald Redfield Griffin (August 3, 1915 - November 7, 2003) was an American professor of zoology at various universities who did seminal research in animal behavior, animal navigation, acoustic orientation and sensory biophysics. In 1938, while an undergraduate at Harvard University, he began studying the navigational method of bats, which he named animal echolocation in 1944. In Question of Animal Awareness, he argued that animals have conscious minds like those of humans.

[edit] Publications

  • Listening in the Dark (1958)
  • Echoes of Bats and Men (1959) Anchor Books (Doubleday). Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 59-12051
  • Animal Thinking (1985) Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-67403-713-8
  • Question of Animal Awareness (1976) ISBN 0-86576-002-0
  • Animal Minds (1992)
  • Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness (2001) ISBN 0-226-30865-0


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NAME Griffin, Donald Redfield
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Animal echolocation
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2003
PLACE OF DEATH
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