He talked to game, birds and fish

Bars? Sure. You don't want animals breaking into the house again. How do you imagine a Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine? If, as a scientist, he spends his life exclusively in the presence of test tubes, one cannot be further from the truth in the case of Konrad Lorenz. The author describes with deep devotion his unusual life surrounded by a wide variety of birds, fish, mammals and all kinds of animals. He humorously describes how he used to loudly imitate bird calls and wave the flag of the Austrian monarchy to lure indecisive cuckoos to the rooftops of his house in Altenberg, Austria, how difficult it is when a newly born house takes you for its mother, or what animals in zoos we should really feel sorry for. The author's approach to understanding animals by the method of simple coexistence not only shows practically that even a scientist capable of laying the foundations of ethology, physiology of behaviour, is at the core a mostly playful person eager for knowledge, but also guaranteed to awaken in you the desire to get at least a tiny golden hamster.