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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
Joined March 2021
Hello! The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior has moved to Bluesky. Follow us at .
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RT @evogom: 🐦📢 very pleased to share our freshly published cultural diffusion experiment w/ @AlarconNietoG and @LucyMAplin in @PLOSBiology….
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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 .
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Theory predicts that strategic flexibility in using social information can help individuals make adaptive decisions. A large-scale cultural diffusion experiment reveals that great tits (Parus major)...
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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 ➡️ Two books we need to understand the world we share👇
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RT @lazaroillustrat: More apes :).Pencil sketches of bonobos. Based on the wonderful photos by Christian Ziegler. @MPI_animalbehav
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RT @imprs_qbee: 🎉Congartulations to Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldons 👩🎓, who defended her thesis "From summer growth to winter decline: brain….
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RT @HanjaBrrr: Stress transmission in bird flocks–it’s a thing! 🐦🐦⚡️@DamienFarine and I show what happens to zebra finches living together….
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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 🌵🏜️.
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We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.
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IMPRS for Quantitative Behaviour Ecology and Evolution
📢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?.➡️
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RT @AviEcoMig: Pokrovsky et al. (2024) Foxtrot migration and dynamic over-wintering range of an Arctic raptor @eLife .
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"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: @UniKonstanz @CBehav @icouzin.
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Bats are known for their ability to use echolocation for obstacle avoidance and orientation. However, the extent to which bats utilize their highly local and directional echolocation for kilometer-...
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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 ➡️
🥳 Our kids book is out!! 🎉. Uschi Müller proves that you’re never too young for #biologging 🐐🌋📡. @animaltracking #icarus.
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RT @CBehav: How do octopuses hunt together with 🐠🐟🐠? Here we unravel the mystery! . Congratulations @OctoEduardo.….
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RT @AniMove: Some of you have been waiting for this moment. all lecture recordings including remote sensing and downloads of this years….
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RT @AyaGoldshtein: Bats navigate over kilometers using echolocation alone! 🦇Check out our new @ScienceMagazine paper, .with @icouzin, @Yoss….
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Bats are known for their ability to use echolocation for obstacle avoidance and orientation. However, the extent to which bats utilize their highly local and directional echolocation for kilometer-...
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RT @UniKonstanz: 🦇 New research shows echolocating bats navigate using an acoustic cognitive map! Latest study published in @ScienceMagazin….
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RT @YovelBatLab: Our new @Science paper is out:.Acoustic cognitive map–based navigation in echolocating bats. Incre….
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Echolocating bats use an acoustic cognitive map for navigation 🦇🧭🔊. Latest research @ScienceMagazine by @AyaGoldshtein with @YovelBatLab + @icouzin @CBehav @UniKonstanz .Paper ➡️Story 👇
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Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone.
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RT @staroddi: Our product expert @BjarnasonAsgeir was interviewed by an Icelandic news paper regarding the recent Blackbird article of @nil….
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RT @PavelTomancak: #Halloween comes to @mpicbg. First science, #bats (of course), by @DinaDechmann @MPI_animalbehav. Full house (of course)….
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