Migration Department, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Burden of a failed error culture in biologging Driven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…

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

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂

Global monitoring of wildlife mortality through participatory science in near-real time Detection of wildlife mortality events is critical for timely conservation and natural resource management. We present an open-source, web-based decision support tool that queries, aggregates and summ...

Monitoring wildlife mortality 24/7 worldwide using participatory science

Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Web Application 👉:
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#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
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From biologging to conservation: Tracking individual performance in changing environments | PNAS Under an accelerating biodiversity crisis, increased urbanization, habitat fragmentation, and climate change require new approaches to assess conse...

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽

New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team

@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social

@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Waving our hands in the air like we don’t care

#mpiab #summer #konstanz #maxplanckinstitut #love

If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044
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The study of social animal migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Seasonal migration is a common behaviour seen in many species worldwide. There is evidence that social factors influence various migration decisions, but compared to the well-studied field of social f...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉

We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology

(4) developing educational programs and ethical guidelines tailored to the unique challenges of biologging research

(3) demanding industry standards for biologging devices to ensure reliability and minimize harm

(2) implementing pre-registration as well as post-reporting of studies and devices to reduce publication bias and improve transparency

(1) establishing a biologging expert registry to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing

Preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social arising from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social animal welfare workshops. How can we develop a better error culture in animal biologging where we can learn from our, and others, mistakes and experiences?

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Seasonal and comparative evidence of adaptive gene expression in mammalian brain size plasticity Adaptive gene expression in the common shrew hypothalamus connects energy homeostasis with reversible brain size changes in response to seasonal environmental challenges.

🚨Shrew paper alert!🚨
In @elife.bsky.social, in this paper led by @labdavalos.bsky.social we found that shrews reprogram their hypothalamus to shrink in winter, tweaking gene expression to save energy and survive the cold!
👉🏼 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

@dechman.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg‐Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster A warming climate is affecting the phenology of life on earth, including when birds migrate and start breeding. We show that earlier arrival is a general pattern also for birds travelling to the Arct...

📄 New Paper!

Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

@globalchangebio.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social

Crossing our fingers for the results World Illustration Awards. We think Javi should win with the commissioned orangutan illo, and we're not biased.

Heads up animal behavior researchers!

Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15.
Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav...

Icarus Birds – just posted on the EOU noticeboard, an opportunity to collaborate in tracking common birds to understand where, how, and why they die – see eounion.org/latest-news/... #ornithology

ICARUS Projects

ICARUS BIRDS
Where, how, and why do birds die?

We are launching the ICARUS BIRDS project to find out! Join us in tracking common birds across Europe to uncover the factors behind their decline.

Learn more on our website: www.ab.mpg.de/icarus

Almost all scientific research is done with lab animals. Surprisingly, there is barely any literature on how captivity may affect the results. And these effects can be profound. In shrews, remind us of depression as the paper published by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social shows doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

Per Tierwohl-Tracker auf der Spur von Krankheiten und Katastrophen DBU-Förderung für Münchner Startup Talos…

Tierwohl-Tracker per Satellit 🛰️! Das #Greenstartup Talos analysiert in einem #DBUprojekt Position und Bewegung von Tieren. Katastrophenwarnung, der Schutz bedrohter Arten und mehr Tierwohl in der Landwirtschaft sind die Ziele:

Bats surf storm fronts during continental migration Scientists use ultra-light sensors connected “like cell phones” across Europe to study how bats migrate over the continent

Just when we thought we couldn’t love #bats any more, there’s this: storm-surfing bats! 🦇😀❤️New research shows migrating bats hitch rides on stormy tailwinds to save energy, covering hundreds of kms in a single night! 🦇 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social

Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal captivity effects | Biology Letters Compared with their free-ranging counterparts, wild animals in captivity experience different conditions with lasting physiological and behavioural effects. Although shifts in gene expression are expe...

tadaa- second paper of the year out! This time on shrews and how quickly and massively they are affected by captivity. Congrats to the junior student who is the first author on this awesome paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @animaltracking.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social

how about starting the new year with a @science.org paper? Congrats Edward Hurme and other coauthors, this makes me incredibly happy 🦇💨

Another award for our very own MoveApps, a free analysis platform for animal tracking data that aims to empower the movement ecology community and make sophisticated analytical tools accessible to a larger audience.

We are honored to be among the winners!

Another award for our very own MoveApps, a free analysis platform for animal tracking data that aims to empower the movement ecology community and make sophisticated analytical tools accessible to a larger audience.