W Köhler assumed the directorship of the Anthropoid Research Station on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands The station was financed by the Prussian Academy of Sciences Köhler was confined to the island for the duration of World War I because the British Navy controlled the seas around Tenerife and he carried out his famous studies of insightful problem solving in chimpanzees during this time

Type of event: Educational Institution, Research Laboratory, or Institute

Country: Tenerife

Region: Europe and the former USSR