Donald Griffin
Donald Redfield Griffin (
August 3,
1915 -
November 7, 2003) was an
American professor of
zoology at various universities who did seminal research in
animal behavior, animal navigation, acoustic orientation and sensory biophysics. In
1938 he began studying the navigational method of bats, which he named
echolocation in
1944. In
Question of Animal Awareness, he argued that animals have conscious
minds like those of
humans.
Publications
- Question of Animal Awareness (1976) ISBN 0865760020
- ''Animal Minds (1992)
- Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness (2001) ISBN 0226308650
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