An appreciation of the diverse roots of animal behaviour study is essential for informed teaching and stimulating current research and scholarship. Insights by early seminal authors are often ignored, insights that may have avoided subsequent controversies or spawned productive research. Even with internet access now available for much early work, historical perspectives are increasingly being lost. Animal behaviour textbooks are often misleading and simplistic on historical matters. In this paper, I document how four authors writing 100 or more years ago greatly influenced my research on nonavian reptile behaviour. These four authors, which merit serious re-reading by students of virtually any taxa and topic, are Jakob von Uexkull, Margaret Floy Washburn, James Mark Baldwin and Wallace Craig. There are also current and upcoming challenges and risks impacting animal behaviour research that may affect how today's research will be viewed in historical perspectives 50, 100 or more years from now.

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在关于动物行为的百年著作中发现的见解和今天的一些警告

了解动物行为研究的不同根源对于知情教学和刺激当前的研究和学术是必不可少的。早期开创性作者的见解经常被忽视，这些见解可能避免了随后的争议或催生了富有成效的研究。即使现在许多早期工作都可以访问互联网，但历史观点正越来越多地消失。动物行为教科书在历史问题上常常具有误导性和简单化。在这篇论文中，我记录了四位作者在 100 年或更久以前的写作如何极大地影响了我对非鸟类爬行动物行为的研究。这四位作者是 Jakob von Uexkull、Margaret Floy Washburn、James Mark Ba​​ldwin 和 Wallace Craig，这四位作者几乎值得所有分类群和主题的学生认真重读。