King Solomon's Ring

King Solomon's Ring is the English name of a book that changed the way people look at animals. In this epoch-making book, Konrad Lorenz completely reinvented the science of ethology. Originally written in German in 1949 and first translated to English in 1952, it has been through at least six printings in English alone and as at 2004 is still in print.

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Konrad Lorenz - Ethology - German - 1949 - English - 1952

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The title is a reference to a legend that King Solomon possessed a magical ring which gave him the power of speaking with animals.

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Legend - Solomon - Magical ring

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Some of the ideas mooted by Lorenz have become so popular they are now widely regarded as common sense, although the work has also been criticised as using excessive anthropomorphism (though Lorenz himself, in the book, presents common misunderstandings of animal behavior as seen in eyes of humans).

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Common sense - Anthropomorphism

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