Research at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
For animals, life means making decisions. When does a blackbird depart on its dangerous annual migration? On which tree does a Kinkajou search for food? How does a fish in a school of hundreds decide what to do? Decisions like these determine an individual’s survival and their probability of reproducing. Often these decisions are made in a group. At the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, we aim to achieve a quantitative and predictive understanding of animal decision-making and movement in the natural world. Pursuing an integrative approach, we combine physiological, neural, ecological and evolutionary perspectives, questions and methods.
The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior is home to three Departments, three Max Planck Research Groups, eight Research Groups, and many professional staff. We are housed in three locations in the greater Konstanz area: Radolfzell, the University of Konstanz, and Bücklestraße in Konstanz. These locations include state-of-the-art facilities for field and laboratory research in animal behavior. A number of external partners and affiliates are associated with the MPIAB, including the Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change.
Max Planck Research Groups
Max Planck Fellows
Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin
Latest Publications
Richter, C.; Behringer, V.; Manig, F.; Henle, T.; Hohmann, G.; Zierau, O.: Traces of dietary patterns in saliva of hominids: Profiling salivary amino acid fingerprints in great apes and humans. Journal of Human Evolution
175, 103305 (2023)
Acacio, M.; Anglister, N.; Vaadia, G.; Harel, R.; Nathan, R.; Hatzofe, O.; Spiegel, O.: A lifetime track of a griffon vulture: The moving story of Rehovot (Y64). Ecology (2023)
Allan, A. T. L.; LaBarge, L. R.; Howlett, C.; Bailey, A. L.; Jones, B.; Mason, Z.; Pinfield, T.; Schroder, F.; Whitaker, A.; White, A. F. et al.; Wilkinson, H.; Hill, R. A.: Patterns of predation and meat-eating by chacma baboons in an Afromontane environment. Folia Primatologica
94, pp. 13 - 36 (2023)
Barrett, B. J.: Inferential power in identifying frequency-dependent social learning strengthened by increasing behavioural options. Journal of Animal Ecology (2023)
Bessone, M.; Kuhl, H. S.; Hohmann, G.; Herbinger, I.; N'Goran, K. P.; Asanzi, P.; Da Costa, P. B.; Derozier, V.; Fotsing, D. B. E.; Ikembelo, B. B. et al.; Iyomi, D. M.; Iyatshi, B. I.; Kafando, P.; Kambere, A. M.; Moundzoho, B. D.; Musubaho, L. K.; Fruth, B.: Assessing the effects of survey-inherent disturbance on primate detectability: Recommendations for line transect distance sampling. Primates
64, pp. 107 - 121 (2023)
Blake, S.; Palmer, J.; Brenn-White, M.; Deem, S. L.: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation. Urban Ecosystems (2023)
