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Donald Griffin

Biology

#400

World Rank

#718

Historical Rank

#238

USA Rank

Zoology

#14

World Rank

#48

Historical Rank

#5

USA Rank

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Donald Griffin's Degrees

Bachelors Zoology Oberlin College

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According to Wikipedia, Donald Redfield Griffin was an American professor of zoology at various universities who conducted 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 identified as animal echolocation in 1944. In The Question of Animal Awareness , he argued that animals are conscious like humans. Griffin was the originator of the concept of mentophobia: the denial of the consciousness of other animals by scientists.

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Listening in the Dark (1958) (1009)
The echolocation of flying insects by bats (1960) (629)
Letters to the editor. (1974) (375)
The Question Of Animal Awareness (1976) (370)
The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience (1976) (366)
Listening in the dark: The acoustic orientation of bats and men. (1958) (344)
Animal Mind — Human Mind (1982) (329)
The importance of atmospheric attenuation for the echolocation of bats (Chiroptera). (1971) (275)
Prospects for a cognitive ethology (1978) (242)
The change in refractive power of the human eye in dim and bright light. (1947) (240)
The sensory basis of obstacle avoidance by flying bats (1941) (158)
New evidence of animal consciousness (2003) (144)
Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness (1992) (138)
ECHOLOCATION BY BLIND MEN, BATS AND RADAR. (1944) (120)
Experimental Determination of Supersonic Notes Emitted by Bats (1938) (90)
The role of the flight membranes in insect capture by bats (1962) (89)
THE SENSITIVITY OF ECHOLOCATION IN BATS (1958) (89)
Chapter 7 – Migrations and Homing of Bats (1970) (82)
Acoustic Orientation in the Oil Bird, Steatornis. (1953) (82)
The sensitivity of the human eye to infra-red radiation. (1947) (76)
Acoustic orientation of neotropical bats (1955) (75)
The resistance of bats to jamming (1963) (63)
High-Altitude Pursuit of Insects by Echolocating Bats (1997) (62)
The homing ability of the neotropical bat Phyllostomus Hastatus, with evidence for visual orientation. (1966) (61)
Bat sounds under natural conditions, with evidence for echolocation of insect prey (1953) (60)
Cognitive ethology : the minds of other animals : essays in honor of Donald R. Griffin (1991) (59)
Laryngeal mechanisms in bats for the production of orientation sounds. (1961) (58)
THE SENSITIVITY OF ECHOLOCATION IN THE FRUIT BAT, ROUSETTUS (1958) (58)
The Sensory Basis of Bird Navigation (1944) (55)
Obstacle avoidance by flying bats: The cries of bats (1942) (54)
Travels of Banded Cave Bats (1945) (51)
Notes on the Life Histories of New England Cave Bats (1940) (50)
TARGET DISCRIMINATION BY THE ECHOLOCATION OF BATS. (1965) (49)
The Physiology and Geophysics of Bird Navigation (1969) (45)
Correlated Orientation Sounds and Ear Movements of Horseshoe Bats (1962) (43)
From cognition to consciousness (1998) (40)
Target Discrimination by the Echolocation of Bats. (1964) (40)
Ecology of Migration: Is Magnetic Orientation a Reality? (1982) (39)
Sensitivity of echolocation in cave swiftlets. (1970) (38)
Longevity Records and Notes on Tooth Wear of Bats (1957) (36)
Sounds audible to migrating birds (1974) (35)
Homing Experiments with Herring Gulls and Common Terns (1943) (35)
Activity Rhythms in Bats under Constant External Conditions (1937) (33)
Homing Experiments with Leach's Petrels (1940) (33)
INITIAL FLIGHT DIRECTIONS OF HOMING BIRDS (1955) (32)
High altitude echolocation of insects by bats (1982) (32)
Echolocation of insects by horseshoe bats (1974) (29)
Reactions of migrating birds to lights and aircraft. (1975) (29)
Radioactive Tagging of Animals Under Natural Conditions (1952) (28)
Measurements of the Ultrasonic Cries of Bats (1950) (27)
Ability of Bats to Discriminate Echoes from Louder Noise. (1958) (26)
Thinking about animal thoughts (1983) (25)
The audibility of frog choruses to migrating birds (1976) (25)
Airplane Observations of Homing Birds (1949) (24)
Echolocation by cave swiftlets (1982) (22)
Radar observations of bird migration over the Western North Atlantic Ocean (1979) (22)
Return to the Magic Well: Echolocation Behavior of Bats and Responses of Insect Prey (2001) (21)
Balloonists' Reports of Sounds Audible to Migrating Birds (1972) (20)
Nocturnal bird migration in opaque clouds (1972) (19)
THE LACK OF ULTRASONIC COMPONENTS IN THE FLIGHT NOISE OF OWLS COMPARED WITH OTHER BIRDS (2008) (19)
Notes on Homing and Migratoy Behavior of Bats (1960) (18)
Lack of Ultrasonic Components in the Flight Noise of Owls (1962) (15)
The 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1973) (14)
Experiments on Bird Navigation. (1948) (12)
Supersonic Cries of Bats (1946) (11)
The Early History of Research on Echolocation (1980) (9)
Animals know more than we used to think (2001) (9)
Ultrasonic Frequencies in Bird Song (1962) (9)
BIRD NAVIGATION * (1952) (9)
Foreword to papers on magnetic sensitivity in birds (1987) (9)
Visual orientation in homing bats. (1966) (8)
Video/acoustic‐array studies of swarming by echolocating bats (2004) (8)
Windows on Animal Minds (1995) (8)
Significant uncertainty is common in nature. (2003) (8)
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS OF HOMING TERNS (1956) (8)
Probable 24-Year Longevity Records for Myotis lucifugus (1965) (8)
The sensory physiology of animal orientation. (1978) (8)
More about Bat “Radar” (1958) (7)
How Bats Guide Their Flight by Supersonic Echoes (1944) (7)
Scientific Approaches to Animal Consciousness1 (2000) (6)
Animal mind - human mind : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Animal Mind - Human Mind, Berlin 1981, March 22-27 (1982) (5)
Echoes of bats and men / Donald R. Griffin. (1959) (5)
Audible and ultrasonic sounds of bats (1951) (5)
Temporal separation of honeybee dance sounds from waggle movements (1992) (5)
Factors affecting the change in refractive power of the eye at high and low illuminations. (1946) (5)
The effects of cold and rate of ascent on aeroembolism. (1946) (4)
Mystery mammals of the twilight (1946) (4)
Essay: animal thinking. (1991) (4)
The Orientation of Birds (1957) (4)
Cognitive Aspects of Echolocation (1988) (4)
Comments on animal sonar symposium (1973) (3)
Is Man Language (2011) (3)
The Navigation of Birds (1952) (3)
The mechanism by which bats produce supersonic sounds. (1946) (2)
Experimental cognitive ethology (1978) (2)
Experiments on Bird Navigation (1948) (2)
Orientation in birds: a foreword (1990) (1)
Biophilia. Edward O. Wilson (1985) (1)
Animal thought : By Stephen Walker. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, 437 pp., $35 cloth, $14.95 paper. (1984) (1)
Helpful “talk” on what to “do” (1978) (1)
Speck New evidence of animal consciousness (1)
Animal Engineering: Readings from Scientific American (1974) (1)
Stomach Contents of Atlantic Harbor Seals (1936) (1)
The Minds of Animals (1986) (1)
Animal Structure and Function (1970) (1)
What do animals think? (1980) (0)
Book Review:Biophilosophical Implications of Inorganic and Organismic Evolution. Bernhard Rensch (1987) (0)
A COUSTIC ORIENTA TION IN THE OIL BIRD, STEA TORNIS (2005) (0)
INVESTIGATIONS OF THE EXACT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHOTIC INTENSITY, WAVE NUMBER AND CERTAIN OTHER VARIABLES, ON THE ONE HAND, AND THE FREQUENCY OF SEEING FUNCTION ON THE OTHER (1956) (0)
Animal consciousness (1986) (0)
Bats.ByPhil Richardson.Published by Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington (DC), in association with The Natural History Museum, London.$16.95 (paper). 112 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 1–58834–020–1. 2002. (2002) (0)
Variability of feeding buzzes in little brown bats (Myotis lucifigus) (2004) (0)
Polarized light and the orientation of bees. (1950) (0)
The Navigation of Bats (1950) (0)
The Crying of Bats (1950) (0)
Population Ecology of Migratory Birds (1974) (0)
Cognitive Ethology, Take Three: Fascinating and Frustrating Questions about Animal Minds (2002) (0)
Animal Orientation and Navigation. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Biology Colloquium, Corvallis, Ore., May 1966. Robert M. Storm, Ed. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 1967. x + 134 pp., illus. $5 (1968) (0)
The sensitivity of human rod and cone vision to infra-red radiation. (1946) (0)
Phylogenetically widespread “facts-of-life” (1987) (0)
Subjective reality (1988) (0)
Comparative Approaches to Animal Cognition State of the Art Report (1982) (0)
Book Review:Communication in the Chiroptera. Animal Comunication. M. Brock Fenton, Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Thomas A. Sebeok (1986) (0)
Localization and Orientation in Biology and Engineering. Proceedings of an International Conference Organized by The German Society of Cybernetics and Held on March 23-25, 1983, at the University of Tubingen.D. Varju , H.-U. Schnitzler (1984) (0)
Book Review:Gavagai! or the Future of the Animal Language Controversy. David Premack (1987) (0)
Bat Banding: A Request for Cöoperation (1936) (0)
Neural Discriminations Achieved by Bats in Echolocation. (1962) (0)
Bird Navigation G. V. T. Matthews Travels and Traditions of Waterfowl H. Albert Hochbaum (1957) (0)
Book Reviews: Avian Physiology (1954) (0)
Real intentions? (1988) (0)
Crimes and Science Fellowships (1961) (0)
Native Bird Songs Native Bird Songs A. R. Brand (1938) (0)

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