Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Tower power

Worm towers can hitchike on insects and build bridges, study finds

Capuchins caught abducting baby howlers

How cameras on a remote island in Panama captured the origin and spread of a novel social tradition

Iain Couzin elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Life-long honor bestowed upon MPI-AB Director

Mothering heights

Not all orangutan mothers raise their infants the same way

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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

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Tower power

June 05, 2025

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature

Iain Couzin elected Fellow of the Royal Society

May 20, 2025

Royal Society elects behavioural biologist Iain Couzin in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research on animal collectives

capuchin monkey in a stream bed with a baby howler on its back

Capuchin monkeys caught abducting baby howlers

May 19, 2025

How cameras on a remote island in Panama captured the origin and spread of a bizarre “fad”

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Genomic Pillars of the Social Brain: Lessons from the Honey Bee

Institute seminar moved to MONDAY

Jun 23, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

MPI-AB Möggingen, Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online

The Field Trip exhibition

Jun 27, 2025 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Akademie Schloss Solitude

Rank and social context influence sleep in wild chimpanzees

Jul 1, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz, Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online

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Sisters, mothers, and others: how kin shape the life-history of an asocial squirrel

Jun 3, 2025 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

The shrew as a model for brain shrinkage without neurodegeneration" - Practice talk for a conference presentation

Jun 6, 2025 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

Bat migration and Flight Dynamics

Jun 13, 2025 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

Blackcap migration - adaptation in time and space

Jun 17, 2025 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

Genomic Pillars of the Social Brain: Lessons from the Honey Bee

Jun 23, 2025 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

Institute seminar moved to MONDAY

The Field Trip exhibition

Jun 27, 2025 from 02:00 PM to 10:00 PM (Local Time Germany)