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Nikolaas Tinbergen, an Uncommon card
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Nikolaas Tinbergen quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nikolaas Tinbergen card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct, an ______ book on animal behaviour.
Answer
influential. In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct, an influential book on animal behaviour. From the Nikolaas Tinbergen article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of WWE Hardcore Champions. List of WWE Hardcore Champions 83 · Positional notation 77 · Cowpox 73 · Nikolaas Tinbergen 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Positional notation. Positional notation 60,000 · Noise 39,000 · Nikolaas Tinbergen 28,000 · Expedition 16 4,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is regarded as one of the founders of ethology, the study of animal behaviour, and an important figure in the development of that discipline into its contemporary form, behavioral ecology.
- In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct, an influential book on animal behaviour.
- In the 1960s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook and Signals for Survival, which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nikolaas Tinbergen article was read about 28,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Nikolaas Tinbergen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Willy Pragher, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
