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Ludwig Huber

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Ludwig Huber was born in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria, on 25 July 1964, but raised in Ternitz. He attended Sachsenbrunn, a classical grammar school near Kirchberg/Wechsel for 8 years, where he was educated in traditional humanistic studies, including Latin and ancient Greek. Despite this catholic-humanistic education, Huber nourished interest in biology from an early age. As a child he dreamed of becoming a biologist, mainly due to his fascination with African fauna (actually by watching TV documentaries and reading books about the work of Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, and Bernhard Grzimek). Shortly before starting his biology studies at the University of Vienna, he participated in a symposium celebrating the 80th birthday of Konrad Lorenz in Laxenburg (south of Vienna). It was here that he got his first hands-on lessons in ethology from well-known scholars of Lorenz, including Bernhard Hassenstein, Sverre Sjölander, Wolfgang Schleidt, Iräneus...

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Huber, L. (2022). Ludwig Huber. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_929

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