Donald Griffin
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 (1976), he argued that animals are conscious like humans.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Southampton
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown firstWorks & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1915
Born
Birth2003
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Donald's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Donald's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Donald Griffin is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable menta…"
— Richard Hofstadter"Speech is our most valuable instrument, because we can make it fit our common lives. We are not born to fol…"
— John Rupert Firth"G.E. Moore in the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy"
— G. E. Moore"This is my experience, that the human brain is still organically evolving in the direction of the great mys…"
— Gopi Krishna (yogi)"In his response, Foreign Minister Jack Straw said that September 11 had not come in response to any Western…"
— Juan Cole"The Christ Spirit is really the aura of Christ Jesus extending to and including every portion of the earth.…"
— Flower A. Newhouse
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on life
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on truth
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on knowledge
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on freedom
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on mind
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on philosophy
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on love
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on time
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on nature
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on books
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change