Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe

Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe (12 November 1894 in Kristiania – 8 June 1976 in Oslo)[1] was a Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist.

Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe the son of sculptors Axel Emil Ebbe [sv] (1868–1941) and Menga Schjelderup (1871–1945).

[3] The dominance hierarchy of chickens and other birds that he studied led him to the observation that hens had an established social order determining who-dared-to-peck-whom in a fight.

Schjelderup-Ebbe studied for a Ph.D. in Germany, tried to present his thesis in Oslo, but was rejected.

Their son was Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, a musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer.