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We want to understand and predict animal decision-making in the natural world | Max Planck Institute in Konstanz, Germany. Photo by Simon Gingins
Get ready media professionals....another cockatoo-bin paper just dropped 🔥
05.12.2025 10:29 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations Hester and the Flack flock! So proud of you!!!
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Do fish change the way they navigate as they grow? @maxcapelle.bsky.social, working in @bahllab.bsky.social, shows us his work with zebrafish VR!
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Countdown for #AnimoveCR at La Selva Estación Biológica, Organization of Tropical Studies 👍
We will see you tomorrow!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animove-course.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social
🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
We are happy to announce that registration for ISBE2026 is now open! We encourage you to register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced fees and to plan your trip and accommodation in advance.
Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.
Led by researchers from the University of Helsinki’s Finnish Museum of Natural History, the study was based on a collaboration of a large international team, including Wolfgang Fiedler from MPI-AB
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Why are there more songbirds some years compared to others? When animals drift across continents, it's hard to know.
New study examined > 1.2 million captures of 33 passerine sp. across 11 European countries.
It found an answer: adult survival shapes abundance link.springer.com/article/10.1...
After many years of trying to combine my 2 passions, art 🎨 and science 👩🔬, into something meaningful, i have created an educational #ChildrensBook! 📚
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
In this study, Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for allowing orangutans to acquire varied diets.
24.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1New paper from the Schuppli group and colleagues!
Video summary 👉 youtu.be/W_eOg7vsL_M?...
For your consideration, our paper about how we can build a better error culture around biologging is now out in Animal Behavio(u)r. A collaborative effort between researchers the veterinarians at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns
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How is climate change impacting African vultures? IMPRS student @jeveso.bsky.social, working with @safilab.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on climate and human impacts on African vultures, nature’s recyclers. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Huge congratulations to our @icouzin.bsky.social for being recognised once again by @clarivateag.bsky.social as a Highly Cited Researcher 2025 — marking Iain’s 7th consecutive year on the list!
#HighlyCited2025 #CollectiveBehaviour #UniKonstanz
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Collective behaviour researcher @icouzin.bsky.social from #UniKonstanz and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social was recognized - once again - as “Global Highly Cited Researcher” 2025. The pioneer in collective behaviour research is named among the world’s most influential scientists. t1p.de/7g6kl
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Photo of Iain Couzin by Ines Janas
This year, @ClarivateAG named Iain Couzin on the Highly Cited Researchers list for significant and broad influence in his fields. This is Iain’s 7th year as an HCR clarivate.com/highly-cited...
#HighlyCited2025
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Meet the coordinator for @imprs-qbee.bsky.social 😍 She's a guide, a helping hand, a mentor, a therapist, and more. No doctoral degree is complete without her.
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Video by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
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#AcademicChatter #PhD #Doctoral
Our deepest thanks to Uli Burchardt, Stadt Konstanz; Annette Kehnel; Martin Wikelski; the Allmannsdorf Wind Quintet. PLUS Barbara Fruth and her awesome team (including but not limited to) Sonya Pashchevskaya, Francesca Decina, Nadia Balduccio, Mattia Bessone, Paulina Kukofka, Nono Bondjengo
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The ceremony included talks and a photographic exhibition by Christian Ziegler featuring Barbara's work on bonobos in the Congo. You can watch the whole ceremony here: youtu.be/_RHWW8d1UE4?...
Thanks @uni-konstanz.de Lecture Recording team 📹
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On 24 October, Barbara Fruth was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her socio-environmental work in the Congo 🇩🇪 🇨🇩 🐵 💚 🏅. Around 350 people came to the Konzil in Konstanz to watch the Mayor pin the Cross of Merit to Barbara's jacket and present the certificate. 🧵 1/3
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What audible components of animal communication serve an alerting function? #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social scientist with international team analyzed wails in rock hyraxes’ songs: t1p.de/i2sjy
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How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds!
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Only one week left to apply for the graduate school IMPRS-QBEE ⏰https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply 🏃♂️
Applications close on October 31.
Not sure what a PhD with us looks like? Check out the video series to see.
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social 🎥
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Thank you for visiting our exhibition! It was a pleasure to talk to all the animal lovers of Munich.
21.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Welcome Dominic! We are so glad you are here with us.
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A long night ahead at the @maxplanck.de HQ. We’re taking over the lobby for the Long Night of Museums Münich on Saturday 18. So many animals, they will be literally crawling up the walls. 🐒🦁🦇🪽🦗🦋🦌🦈
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🦇 Noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) hunting a Noctua moth.
Illustration for "Animals on the Move" series for Dina Dechmann's lab at MPI of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#SciArt #art #bats #wildlifeart #insects
New study from #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social shows: animal swarms don’t need to follow fixed rules; their coordination emerges from brain dynamics. Flexible “ring attractor” networks create complexity from simplicity: https://t1p.de/4c6cd @icouzin.bsky.social
