Abstract：
This paper considers the epistemic career of visual media in ethology in the mid-20th century. Above all, ethologists claimed close contact with research animals and drew scientific evidence from these human-animal communities, particularly in public relations. However, if we look into the toolboxes of comparative behavioral biologists, it becomes evident that scientifically valid research results were primarily obtained by experimenting with model images. These visual specimens tell a technical story of the methodological requirements in behavioral science necessary to bridge everyday observations between the laboratory and the field. By neutralizing individual traces of animal bodies as well as their observers, they prompted the abstraction of ethological hypotheses. The case study of East-German biologist Günter Tembrock (1918-2011), who maintained his own collection of newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, and films, offers a new perspective on the methodological development of this field. Furthermore, this article contributes to a scholarly discussion geared toward expanding the spaces of ethological research. My analysis of the image collections of the Forschungsstätte für Tierpsychologie presents the archive as a relevant site of study in the history of ethology.
摘要：
本文考虑了20世纪中叶视觉媒体在行为学中的认识论生涯。最重要的是,民族学家声称与研究动物有密切的接触，并从这些人类动物群落中获得了科学证据，尤其是在公共关系方面。然而,如果我们研究比较行为生物学家的工具箱，很明显，科学有效的研究成果主要是通过对模型图像进行实验获得的。这些视觉标本讲述了行为科学中方法论要求的技术故事，这些要求是在实验室和野外之间架起日常观察的桥梁。通过中和动物身体及其观察者的个体痕迹，他们提出了行为学假设的抽象。以东德生物学家GünterTembrock（1918-2011）为例，他保存了自己的剪报收藏，图纸,照片,和电影,为这一领域的方法论发展提供了新的视角。此外，这篇文章有助于扩大行为学研究空间的学术讨论。我对ForschungsstättefürTierpsychologie的图像收藏的分析将该档案作为行为学历史上的相关研究场所。
