Gerardus Pieter Baerends (30 March 1916,

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– 1 September 1999,

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) was a Dutch biologist and one of the most important representatives of the so-called classical ethology in the tradition of

Nikolaas Tinbergen Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( , ; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) 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 ...

and

Konrad Lorenz Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoology, zoologist, ethology, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von ...

. Baerends' behavioral working group was the first of this specialty in the Netherlands and is still regarded as one of the world's most prolific, since from it alone 43 theses emerged. In 1958 he became member of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baerends, Gerard 1916 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Dutch zoologists Ethologists Academic staff of the University of Groningen Leiden University alumni Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Scientists from The Hague