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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Soaring success for movement ecologist

Soaring success for movement ecologist

Hannah Williams wins Freigeist Fellowship for research into Optimal Movement Theory

Wealth inequality plagues animal societies too

Wealth inequality plagues animal societies too

Studies into human inequality can teach us a lot about the evolution of animal groups

Flying into a clean and safe future

Flying into a clean and safe future

Can wind turbines and migrating birds coexist?

Scarlet Macaw and Blue and Gold Macaw in Walsrode Birdpark, by Simon Bruslund

Unravelling the mystery of parrot longevity

Bigger brains have led some species of parrot to live surprisingly long lives, new research shows

Vision Statement of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Vision Statement of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

"We want to understand and predict animal decision-making in the natural world."

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Hannah Williams

Freigeist Fellowship for Hannah Williams

May 12, 2022

Why a young scientist is on the search for Optimal Movement Theory

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Wealth inequality plagues animal societies too

Wealth inequality plagues animal societies too

May 03, 2022

Drawing inspiration from studies into human inequality can teach us a lot about the evolution of animal groups.

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Storks, Alejandro Onrubia

Flying into a clean and safe future

April 20, 2022

A pair of GPS studies brings clarity to a burning climate question: can wind turbines and migrating birds coexist?

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Events

Quantitative Approaches to Behaviour

May 22, 2022

Lisbon, Portugal

Institute Seminar - Louis van Schalkwyk

May 24, 2022 10:30 - 11:30

online, Room: Online

Animal Behavior Course

May 25, 2022

Lecture

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May 2022

CASCB talk: Brain-wide mapping of auditory-evoked responses in the small, transparent teleost fish, Jörg Henninger

from 11:45 to 12:45

On the benefit of a pure cost for the evolution of cooperative behavior (by Mohammad Salahshour) + The physiology of fear: predator-induced stress and human shields (by Laura LaBarge)

from 10:30 to 11:30

Animal Behavior Course

From the PhD-Odyssey to Project Management

from May 5, 2022 09:00 to May 6, 2022 12:30

Brutbiologischer Kurs

Old mystery solved: Deciphering the principle of cellular protein sorting at the ribosome

from 12:15 to 13:15

From the PhD-Odyssey to Project Management

from May 5, 2022 09:00 to May 6, 2022 12:30

Brutbiologischer Kurs

The evolution of intergroup conflict in animal societies

from 10:30 to 11:30

Brutbiologischer Kurs

Brutbiologischer Kurs

CASCB talk: Notes from Underground: vocal communication in the naked mole-rat by Alison Barker

from 11:45 to 12:45

Institute Seminar - Adwait Deshpande & Richard Gunner

from 10:30 to 11:30

Animal Behavior Course

Genes vs environment interaction: Metabolism and epigenetics as basis of p53-associated genomic integrity

from 12:15 to 13:15

Sustainability Group Meeting / Nachhaltigkeitstreffen MPIAB

from 15:00 to 16:00

Writing for Twitter (by Teague O’Mara)

from 15:00 to 16:00

Exhibition Re-Shaping Nature

from 15:00 to 17:00

The pinnacle of fish sociality: what can we learn?

from 10:30 to 11:30

Animal Behavior Course

QUeeR in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

CASCB talk: Communicative and cognitive mechanisms underlying multi-level dolphin alliances by Stephanie King

from 11:45 to 12:45

Seeing light with different eyes – Aureochrome photoreceptors in diatoms

from 12:15 to 13:15

QUeeR in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Behavioural and archaeological signatures of nut-cracking accross primates

from 10:30 to 11:30

Quantitative Approaches to Behaviour

Institute Seminar - Louis van Schalkwyk

from 10:30 to 11:30

Animal Behavior Course

Good Scientific Practice - Avoid Research Misconduct

CASCB talk: Understanding and shaping group dynamics in heterogeneous classrooms by Jeanine Grütter

from 11:45 to 12:45

Doctoral defense by Helder Hugo

from 14:00 to 16:00

Institute Seminar - Daniela Rößler & Katherine Snell

from 10:30 to 11:30