當人遇見狗
作者 / 勞倫茲 Lorenz, Konrad
譯者 / 張麗瓊
出版社 / 大樹文化事業股份有限公司
出版日期 / 1993/12/30
商品語言 / 中文/繁體
內容簡介
這是一本狗行為學的舉世經典之作,同時也是譯有多國版本、膾炙人口的動物博物誌。全書21個篇章,從人與狗的相遇談起,對於狗的個性、習慣、訓練,乃至與人的微妙關係,勞倫茲博士無不巧妙地藉由他身邊的狗來現身說法,正確地還原了狗真正的面貌。換句話說,從本書中無數個精采案例,你可以深刻、清晰地瞭解狗的行為模式以及狗的內心世界。Wikipedia
Man Meets Dog is a zoological book for the general audience, written by the Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz in 1949. The first English-language edition appeared in 1954.
The original German title is So kam der Mensch auf den Hund, which could be literally translated as "How man ended up with dog". The German title is also a play on the phrase "Auf den Hund kommen", which is a common idiom in German-speaking countries and probably comes from the old days when farmers with economic problems had to sell their livestock animals and ended up with only the dog.
Contents[edit]
The opening chapter "How it may have started" deals with theories concerning the question where and when man first domesticated the predecessor of the modern dog. The book has a lot of interesting anecdotes of the author's experiences with dogs, these stories are often illustrated with simple drawings. Lorenz usually owned several dogs and many other animals and lived with them in his house near Vienna. There are also many insights into the behavior of cats and birds, though the focus is of course on the behavior of dogs.
Daniel Pinkwater refers amusingly to Man Meets Dog in his Uncle Boris in the Yukon and other shaggy dog stories,[1] stating among other things:
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