Happy to share this SideDoor podcast episode where we (Meg Crofoot, Brendan Barrett & I) have the opportunity to chat about stone tools used by white-faced capuchin monkeys!

Smithsonian Panama Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Ecology of Animal Societies

🚨Application deadline extended! 🎉 Register to our Collective Behaviour Field Course until 14 April 2024. Click the link or DM for more details 😎 exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/applicati…
Cini Gall Chanel Rampartab Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior KalahariResearchCentre

We highly recommend the 'The Joy of Why' #podcast episode with our Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour cospeaker Iain Couzin on how and why animal exhibit #collectivebehaviour .

Universität Konstanz Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Happy to share our new paper on the ontogeny of migration in Journal of #Ornithology DO-G This time amazing black storks. Great work by Bsc student Felix Fisel, and Georg Heine, Carsten Rohde, Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior photo: C Rohde link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Remember, there's still time to apply for the PhD position in our DC2 project 'Migration Analysis'! The position is based at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany and you'll join the Collective Migration group led by Dr. Andrea Flack Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social - #WildDroneEU

🚨Only 10 days left to apply!!! Calling all 🇿🇦 zoology students. Come to the Kalahari desert to learn about animal communication and collective behavior field methods. Two weeks of hands-on practical exercises at the KalahariResearchCentre. Fully funded + a small travel stipend

TONIGHT in Konstanz! Martin Wikelski reads from his new book 'The Internet of Animals' Piper Verlag

Where? SÜDKURIER Medienhaus Max-Stromeyer-Straße 178
When? 20/03 @ 7 pm
Admission? 15 euros
Language? 🇩🇪
Book here: suedkurier.reservix.de/tickets-buchpr…

Universität Konstanz Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior

Thanks Max Planck Society for this fantastic explainer on the playful teasing study by Isabelle Laumer PhD Sasha Winkler Federico Rossano & Erica Cartmill.

If you haven't read the paper Royal Society Publishing click here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

When team work makes the dream work. Huge thanks to caroline and the team Orangutans of Suaq for creating a science party for Konstanz!

Wonderful presentation of the amazing animal studies done Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior today at our senate meeting by Meg Crofoot incl. stunning movies by Martin Wikelski and Iain Couzin!

Our new OA article is out in Behavioral Ecology ! Tracking juvenile great tits across their first year of life, we document the dynamic changes in social strategies during transition to independence in a species with limited parental care. (1/2)

doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

Important work on human-wildlife interactions, including many #mpiab scientists and colleagues

Exciting News! Our latest paper titled 'Modulation of cell-mediated immunity during pregnancy in wild bonobos' has been published!
Verena Behringer Primatenzentrum DPZ Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition
Barbara Fruth Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Julia Ostner Primate Behavioral Ecology @primbehavecol.bsky.soc
Ruth Sonnweber and Caro Deimel Universität Wien

SWR features important research by
dechmannlab ⭐️
DeeAnn Reeder
Adrià López-Baucells - Connecting Bats & People et al. showing that there is *no* widespread transmission of viruses by African bats.

Original MS Royal Society Publishing 👉royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Story in🇩🇪 swr.de/wissen/zoonose…

Go for an evolutionary deep dive to discover the roots of our love for communal eating.
With this podcast from @Cbehav you've got the perfect dive masters to guide you.

😋Britta Renner Health Psychology Uni Konstanz on the psychology of eating
🐵Barbara Fruth on social hunting+feeding in bonobos

Did you know orangutans are capable of producing two different vocal sounds at the same time? Something that has otherwise only been known in songbirds and human beatboxing!
A fascinating discovery by Adriano Lameira, Madeleine Hardus and their team.
doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…