- Heini Hediger
Heini Hediger (1908-1992) was a Swiss
zoologist noted for work inproxemics in animal behavior and is known as the "father of zoo biology". Hediger described a number of standard interaction distances used in one form or another between animals. Two of these areflight distance andcritical distance , used when animals of different species meet, whereas others arepersonal distance andsocial distance , observed during interactions between members of the same species. [cite book | last = Hall | first = Edward, T. | title = The Hidden Dimension | publisher = Anchor Books | year = 1966 | id = ASIN B0006BNQW2] Hediger's biological social distance theories were used as a basis forEdward Hall 's 1966 anthropological social distance theories. Hediger was formerly the director ofZürich Zoo .In the 1950s, psychologist
Humphry Osmond developed the concept ofsocio-architecture hospital design, such as was used in the design of theWeyburn, Saskatchewan mental hospital in 1951, based partly on Hediger’s species-habitat work.Quotes
Hediger's works
*cite book | last = Hediger | first = Heini | title = Studies of the psychology and behaviour of captive animals in zoos and circuses | publisher = Butterworths Scientific Publications | year = 1955 | id = ASIN B0007IXEUS
Literature about him
*Sebeok, Thomas A. 2001. "The Swiss Pioneer in Nonverbal Communication Studies: Heini Hediger (1908–1992)". New York: Legas.
*Turovski, Aleksei 2000. The semiotics of animal freedom: A zoologist’s attempt to perceive the semiotic aim of H. Hediger. "Sign Systems Studies " 28: 380–387.References
External links
*Graziano, Michael S.A. Cooke, Daylan, F. (2006). " [http://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/Neuropsychologia_2006.pdf Pariieto-frontal Interactions, Personal Space, and Defensive Behavior] ", "Neuropsychologia" 44, 845-59.
ee also
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Biosemiotics
*Bernhard Grzimek
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