Heini Hediger

Heini Hediger (1908-1992) was a Swiss zoologist noted for work in proxemics 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 are flight distance and critical distance, used when animals of different species meet, whereas others are personal distance and social 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 for Edward Hall's 1966 anthropological social distance theories. Hediger was formerly the director of Zürich Zoo.

In the 1950s, psychologist Humphry Osmond developed the concept of socio-architecture hospital design, such as was used in the design of the Weyburn, 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

*Biosemiotics
*Bernhard Grzimek