Konrad Lorenz Born on November 7, 1903, Konrad Lorenz instantly fell in love with animals. At a young age Lorenz had several different types of animals for pets, he had a young duckling that a neighbor had given to him, and that small duckling triggered his interest in ethology. Not knowing exactly what he was doing, Lorenz, only ten years old at the time, began studying the behaviors of his duckling and noticing that the duckling took to him as if he were its mother. This small idea had brought on one of Lorenz"s most controversial experiments later on in...
psychology, though most people did not want him in that position, Lorenz learnt a lot about evolution and psychology.

Over all eighty-five years of his life, Konrad Lorenz had made many amazing advances and discoveries in the zoology and ethology world. Without Lorenz, today we might not know that geese take to the first figure they see when born, or that worms and insects are closely related. We would not have any institutes of ethology, and we might not have even had the study of ethology at all. Konrad Lorenz was truly an amazing zoologist and ethologist.