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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 https://t.co/mGSiFxU11h
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🐦📢 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: https://t.co/0TYIgCEfPU
@CBehav @MPI_animalbehav @UZH_en
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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
https://t.co/nZMLiRp1uh
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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 ➡️ https://t.co/W7ZqlHRQeI Two books we need to understand the world we share👇
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More apes :) Pencil sketches of bonobos. Based on the wonderful photos by Christian Ziegler. @MPI_animalbehav
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🎉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
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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
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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 🌵🏜️ https://t.co/6eCoxmQtGq
nationalgeographic.com
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-qbee.mpg.de
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? ➡️ https://t.co/nCxL8adjbv
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Pokrovsky et al. (2024) Foxtrot migration and dynamic over-wintering range of an Arctic raptor @eLife
https://t.co/vXUhyobxPO | @tundroved @MPI_animalbehav @animaltracking @CurkTeja | #ornithology #birdmigration
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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: https://t.co/Ia4bCwonBX
@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 ➡️ https://t.co/i4U1DjOMJN
🥳 Our kids book is out!! 🎉 Uschi Müller proves that you’re never too young for #biologging 🐐🌋📡 @animaltracking #icarus
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How do octopuses hunt together with 🐠🐟🐠? Here we unravel the mystery! https://t.co/DLFRsVAEwc Congratulations @OctoEduardo. So great to see your research on the cover of the latest @NatureEcoEvo issue! @UniKonstanz
Our November issue is now live! https://t.co/PNoDXf9I6J 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. https://t.co/JHfKFS6qj7
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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
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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
https://t.co/DMTyQvZWAv
science.org
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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🦇 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 ➡️ https://t.co/a7JUIlHYHi Full story: https://t.co/WgQzjzvLHi
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Our new @Science paper is out: Acoustic cognitive map–based navigation in echolocating bats https://t.co/yaY1LYDRIR Incredible work by @AyaGoldshtein @ran_nathan @icouzin @Sivan_Toledo et al. Photo by Jens Rydell #bats #echolocation #science
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Echolocating bats use an acoustic cognitive map for navigation 🦇🧭🔊 Latest research @ScienceMagazine by @AyaGoldshtein with @YovelBatLab + @icouzin @CBehav @UniKonstanz Paper ➡️ https://t.co/Ia4bCwnPMp Story 👇 https://t.co/tf1EptCzqx
ab.mpg.de
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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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. https://t.co/piQRlovBDU
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#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! 🦇🎃👻💀
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