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Hello! The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior has moved to Bluesky. Follow us at mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mpi-an…
What triggers social learning in wild animals? An experiment on birds has pinpointed a single factor—immigration—that can cause animals to quickly learn useful behaviors from locals. Study by @evogom @LucyMAplin @AlarconNietoG @CBehav @UniKonstanz journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
🐦📢 very pleased to share our freshly published cultural diffusion experiment w/ @AlarconNietoG and @LucyMAplin in @PLOSBiology that explored decision-making of immigrant great tits after moving into a new social group: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… @CBehav @MPI_animalbehav @UZH_en
BREAKING!! Two books by #mpiab authors have been shortlisted for "Best Science Book of 2025" by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research in Austria😃 Public voting is open until 9 Jan ➡️wissenschaftsbuch.at Two books we need to understand the world we share👇
More apes :) Pencil sketches of bonobos. Based on the wonderful photos by Christian Ziegler. @MPI_animalbehav
🎉Congartulations to Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldons 👩🎓, who defended her thesis "From summer growth to winter decline: brain size, captive effect, and cognitive outcomes in the common shrew during Dehnel's phenomenon" with @martinwikelski, @DinaDechmann, and Dominik von Elverfeldt
Stress transmission in bird flocks–it’s a thing! 🐦🐦⚡️@DamienFarine and I show what happens to zebra finches living together with stressed friends. Stoked to see this out, sooo much hard work went into it. Thanks @CBehav @UniKonstanz @MPI_animalbehav royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Latest magazine feature from @zieglerphoto1 is out in National Geographic 🥳 Read about the secret strength of cacti and see beautiful photos by Christian and Victor Ammann shot in Mexico 🌵🏜️ nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
Deadline November 24th ⏰ Apply now for a #Phd @imprs_qbee @UniKonstanz ➡️imprs-qbee.mpg.de
📢Pls RT Looking for a #PhD in #quantitative #biology #evolution or #ecology? Or know someone who is? Applications are open for PhDs starting 2025 @UniKonstanz @imprs_qbee #locusts #moths #meerkats #lemurs #hyenas #nematodes #baboons Need we say more? ➡️imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current
Pokrovsky et al. (2024) Foxtrot migration and dynamic over-wintering range of an Arctic raptor @eLife doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… | @tundroved @MPI_animalbehav @animaltracking @CurkTeja | #ornithology #birdmigration
"Distance a tender echo, waiting to be heard." Thanks to the Poetry of Science podcast for bringing lyricism to the bat echolocation study by @AyaGoldshtein @YovelBatLab in @ScienceMagazine Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @UniKonstanz @CBehav @icouzin
📢Pls RT Looking for a #PhD in #quantitative #biology #evolution or #ecology? Or know someone who is? Applications are open for PhDs starting 2025 @UniKonstanz @imprs_qbee #locusts #moths #meerkats #lemurs #hyenas #nematodes #baboons Need we say more? ➡️imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current
Need a gift idea? Our book "Salvatore and the Goats of Mount Etna" is now available in the UK, US, and Canada! Suitable for kids aged 5-8 (and for all of us who believe we can listen to animals). Buy the book by Uschi Muller @GreystoneKids here ➡️outpage.co/9176685871377
🥳 Our kids book is out!! 🎉 Uschi Müller proves that you’re never too young for #biologging 🐐🌋📡 @animaltracking #icarus
How do octopuses hunt together with 🐠🐟🐠? Here we unravel the mystery! campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science/unl… Congratulations @OctoEduardo. So great to see your research on the cover of the latest @NatureEcoEvo issue! @UniKonstanz
Our November issue is now live! nature.com/natecolevol/vo… Featuring research on wildlife trade, leadership sharing in octopuses & fish, spatial biases in the hominin fossil record, & a Perspective on microbial growth rates Cover image from Sampaio et al. nature.com/articles/s4155…
Some of you have been waiting for this moment.....all lecture recordings including remote sensing and downloads of this years #Animove are online now. 🥳 Happy Learning ! @MPI_animalbehav @safilabmpi animove.org/lecture-record…
Bats navigate over kilometers using echolocation alone! 🦇Check out our new @ScienceMagazine paper, with @icouzin, @YossiYovel, Xing Chen, @BoonmanArjan, @Eamichai, @Lharten, Yotam Orchan, @ran_nathan, @Sivan_Toledo. @Cbehav @maxplanckpress @UniKonstanz science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
🦇 New research shows echolocating bats navigate using an acoustic cognitive map! Latest study published in @ScienceMagazine by @AyaGoldshtein, @YovelBatLab, @MPI_animalbehav, #UniKonstanz @icouzin, @CBehav. 📄 Paper ➡️ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Full story: t1p.de/09l4x
Our new @Science paper is out: Acoustic cognitive map–based navigation in echolocating bats science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Incredible work by @AyaGoldshtein @ran_nathan @icouzin @Sivan_Toledo et al. Photo by Jens Rydell #bats #echolocation #science
Echolocating bats use an acoustic cognitive map for navigation 🦇🧭🔊 Latest research @ScienceMagazine by @AyaGoldshtein with @YovelBatLab + @icouzin @CBehav @UniKonstanz Paper ➡️science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Story 👇ab.mpg.de/634947/news_pu…
Our product expert @BjarnasonAsgeir was interviewed by an Icelandic news paper regarding the recent Blackbird article of @nilslinek @scottyanco @JPartecke @martinwikelski and @MPI_animalbehav using our @staroddi heart rate loggers. 🐦⬛
I was interviewed by an Icelandic news paper regarding the recent Blackbird article of @nilslinek @scottyanco @JPartecke @martinwikelski and @MPI_animalbehav using our @staroddi heart rate loggers. mbl.is/frettir/innlen…
#Halloween comes to @mpicbg. First science, #bats (of course), by @DinaDechmann @MPI_animalbehav. Full house (of course). Organized by our amazing #Postdocs, of course. The afternoon/evening will be wild! 🦇🎃👻💀