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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Lötters, S.; Böning, P.; Bailon, S.; Castañeda, J. D. B.; Boistel, R.; Catenazzi, A.; Chaparro, J. C.; Chávez, G.; Chujutalli, A.; Coen, L. et al.; Coloma, L. A.; Crawford, A. J.; Culebras, J.; Martínez, J. C. C.; Daza, J. M.; Riva, I. D. L.; Ellwein, D. J.; Ernst, R.; Flechas, S. V.; Fouquet, A.; Guayasamin, J. M.; Heine, C.; Jorge, R. F.; Jung, A.; Jungfer, K.-H.; Kaffenberger, N.; Krehenwinkel, H.; Marca, E. L.; Lampo, M.; Rangel Guido F., M.; Orsen, L.; Paluh, D. J.; Gonzalez, J. L. P.; Perrin, J.; Riera, A. B. Q.; Reyes-Puig, J. P.; Ross, B. R.-R.; Rößler, D. C.; Solano, L. A. R.; Salazar-Valenzuela, D.; Vazquez, J. C. S.; Sowinski, M.; Terán-Valdez, A.; Tovar-Ortiz, A.; Veith, M.; Venegas, P.; von May, R.; Weitkamp, T.; Plewnia, A.: A roadmap for harlequin frog systematics, with a partial revision of Amazonian species related to Atelopus spumarius. Zootaxa 5571 (1), pp. 1 - 76 (2025)

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McGarvey, K.; Daura-Jorge, F. G.; Machado, A. M. S.; Farine, D. R.; Rogan, E.; Cantor, M.: The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans. Current Zoology (2025)

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Mentesana, L.; Hau, M.; D'Amelio, P. B.; Adreani, M. N.; Sánchez-Tójar, A.: Do egg hormones have fitness consequences in wild birds? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 28 (3), e70100 (2025)

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Montalcini, C. M.; Driver, C.C.; Mendl, M. T.: Relevance of state-behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare. Biological Reviews (2025)

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Montenegro, V. M.; Mateo-Tomás, P.; Schneider, J.; Dent, D. H.; Crowther, T.; Bello, C.: Linking functional traits to trophic roles in scavenger assemblages. Ecology and Evolution 15 (1), e70485 (2025)

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Nabeel, A.; Karichannavar, A.; Palathingal, S.; Jhawar, J.; Brückner, D. B.; Raj, M. D.; Guttal, V.: Discovering stochastic dynamical equations from ecological time series data. American Naturalist (2025)

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Nehrer, S. W.; Laursen, J. E.; Heins, R. C.; Friston, K.; Mathys, C.; Waade, P. T.: Introducing ActiveInference.jl: A Julia library for simulation and parameter estimation with active inference models. Entropy 27 (1), 62 (2025)

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Nyaguthii, B.; Dehnen, T.; Klarevas-Irby, J. A.; Papageorgiou, D.; Kosgey, J.; Farine, D. R.: Cooperative and plural breeding by the precocial vulturine guineafowl. Ibis (2025)

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Oehler, F.; Hagen, R.; Hackländer, K.; Walton, Z.; Ashish, K.; Arnold, J.: How do red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) explore their environment? Characteristics of movement patterns in time and space. BMC Movement Ecology 13 (1), 4 (2025)

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Paltrinieri, L.; Razgour, O.; Santini, L.; Russo, D.; Aihartza, J.; Aizpurua, O.; Amorim, F.; Ancillotto, L.; Bidzinski, K.; Bilgin, R. et al.; Briggs, P.; Cantu-Salazar, L.; Ciechanowski, M.; Cistrone, L.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Eldegard, K.; Fjelldal, M. A.; Froidevaux, J.; Furmankiewicz, J.; Garin, I.; Hamel, L.; Ibanez, C.; Jankowska-Jarek, M.; Juste, J.; Korine, C.; Lesinski, G.; Leuchtmann, M.; Martinoli, A.; Mas, M.; Mathews, F.; McKay, R. A.; Molenaar, T.; Morris, C.; Nistreanu, V.; Olival, K. J.; Pereswiet-Soltan, A.; Peter, A.; Phelps, K.; Pontier, D.; Pope, L.; Rebelo, H.; Preatoni, D. G.; Puig-Monserat, X.; Roche, N.; Ruczynski, I.; Sandor, A. D.; Soras, R.; Spada, M.; Toshkova, N.; van der Kooij, J.; Voigt, C. C.; Wikar, Z.; Zapart, A.; Zegarek, M.; Benitez-Lopez, A.: The effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time. Ecography (2025)

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Panter, C. T.; Nebel, C.; Raab, M.; Strauss, V.; Freytag, C.; Wojta, M.; Böing, H.; Hacker, P.; Raab, R.; Windt, J. et al.; Posautz, A.; Kuebber-Heiss, A.; Scherler, P.; Grüebler, M. U.; Kormann, U. G.; Kolbe, M.; Millon, A.; de la Puente, J.; Viñuela, J.; Orr-Ewing, D.; Krone, O.; Langgemach, T.; Åkesson, S.; Mattsson, B.; Sumasgutner, P.; Alcántara de la Fuente, M.; Alvarez, E.; Arizaga, J.; Bach Pagès, A.; Bermejo, A.; Ceccolini, G.; Chakarov, N.; Derpmann-Hagenström, P.; Dostál, M.; Fabian, G.; Fiedler, W.; Galán, M.; Ganier, C.; Gärtner, A.; Glesener, L.; Godino, A.; Guziová, Z.; Haraszthy, L.; Karlsson, C.; Klein, K.; Literák, I.; Lorenzini, N.; Löwold, M.; Lüning, C.; Maderič, B.; Makoň, K.; Mammen, K.; Mammen, U.; Marczak, T.; Matušík, H.; Mionnet, A.; Morollón, S.; Mráz, J.; Nachtigall, W.; Nicolai, B.; Olalde Fernández, M.; Ottensmann, M.; Palacios González, M. J.; Paquet, J.-Y.; Pečeňák, V.; Peške, L.; Pfeiffer, T.; Pudwill, R.; Rak, D.; Rapp, T. M.; Resetaritz, A.; van Rijn, S.; Riols, R.; Rodríguez, A.; Scholze, L.; Schulte, L.; de Seynes, A.; Škrábal, J.; Spakovszky, P.; Steinborn, E.; Svetlík, J.; Talhoet, S.; Vaczi, M.; Verdier, A.-G.; Vermouzek, Z.; Villanúa Inglada, D.; Westphal, J.; Raab, R.: A LEAP forward in wildlife conservation: a standardized framework to determine mortality causes in large GPS-tagged birds. Ecology and Evolution 15 (4), e70975 (2025)

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Parker, A.V.; Stemmer, M.; Grätsch, S.; Dorigo, A.; Ramirez, O. R.; Adel, A.; Jordan, A.; Baier, H.: Intrinsic timing of brood care in shell-dwelling cichlids. Current Biology 35 (3), pp. 672 - 680 (2025)

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Pedrazzi, L.; Naik, H.; Sandbrook, C.; Lurgi, M.; Fuertbauer, I.; King, A. J.: Advancing animal behaviour research using drone technology. Animal Behaviour 222, 123147 (2025)

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Ratsimbazafindranahaka, M. N.; Adam, O.; Huetz, C.; Reidenberg, J. S.; Saloma, A.; Andrianarimisa, A.; Charrier, I.: Behavioral data suggest adaptive buoyancy control during shallow dives in humpback whales. The Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (8), jeb249936 (2025)

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Revathe, T.; Mundry, R.; Utami-Atmoko, S. S.; Aprilla, T. U.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Froehlich, M.; Buerkner, P.-C.; Schuppli, C.: Sumatran orangutan mothers differ in the extent and trajectory of their expression of maternal behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292 (2046), 20250443 (2025)

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Roura-Torres, B.; Baniel, A.; Cryer, A.; Sauvadet, L.; De Pastors, M.; Havill, G.; Kreyer, M.; Meric de Bellefon, J.; Abaga, S.; Harté, M. et al.; Kappeler, P. M.; Charpentier, M. J.E.: Toward independence: maternal social status and experience shape mother–infant relationships in mandrills. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 79 (3), 42 (2025)

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Russo, N. J.; Takuo, J. M.; Tegebong, V.; LeBreton, M.; Dean, M.; Ferraz, A.; Barbier, N.; Wikelski, M.; Ordway, E. M.; Saatchi, S. et al.; Smith, T. B.: Spaceborne and UAV-LiDAR reveal hammer-headed bat preference for intermediate canopy height and diverse structure in a Central African rainforest. BMC Movement Ecology 13 (1), 30 (2025)

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Salahshour, M.: The interplay of trophic interactions and game dynamics gives rise to life-history trade-offs, consistent personalities, and predator-prey and aggression power laws. New Journal of Physics 27 (2), 023009 (2025)

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Salerno, J.; Warrier, R.; Breck, S. W.; Carter, N. H.; Berger, J.; Barrett, B. J.; Lukumay, J. R.; Kaduma, J. F.; Grau, A.; Dickman, A. J. et al.; Crooks, K. R.: Beneficial spillover effects of antipredation interventions support human–carnivore coexistence. Conservation Letters 18 (2), e13085 (2025)

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Sampaio, E.; Schnell, A. K.; Amodio, P.: Cognition in multi-species sociality. Current Biology 35 (4), pp. R132 - R136 (2025)

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Santos, C. D.; Paludo, D.; Silvestro, P.; Monteiro, J. O.; Pachelle, P. P. G.; Oliveira, V.; Mobley, J. A.: Sea-level rise causes feeding habitat loss for migratory shorebirds in remote coastal wetlands of Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters 20 (3), 034038 (2025)

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Sayin, S.; Couzin-Fuchs, E.; Petelski, I.; Günzel, Y.; Salahshour, M.; Lee, C. Y.; Graving, J. M.; Li, L.; Deussen, O.; Sword, G. A. et al.; Couzin, I. D.: The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts. Science 387, pp. 995 - 1000 (2025)

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Sehner, S.; Willems, E. P.; Baumeyer, A.; Davis, L.; van Schaik, C. P.; Burkart, J. M.: Sensitivity to immature skill deficits. Food sharing experiments in squirrel nonkeys (Saimiri boliviensis) and common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Journal of Comparative Psychology (2025)

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Smeele, S. Q.; Senar, J. C.; McElreath, M. B.; Aplin, L. M.: The effect of social structure on vocal flexibility in monk parakeets. Royal Society Open Science 12 (5), 241717 (2025)

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Snell, K. R. S.; Machado dos Santos, I. A.; van Bemmelen, R. S. A.; Moe, B.; Thorup, K.: Wintering, rather than breeding, oceanic conditions may modulate declining survival in a long-distance migratory seabird. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 754, pp. 93 - 103 (2025)

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Surbeck, M.; Cheng, L.; Kreyer, M.; Gort, G.; Mundry, R.; Hohmann, G.; Fruth, B.: Drivers of female power in bonobos. Communications Biology 8 (1), 550 (2025)

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Taborsky, M.: The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1922), 20230262 (2025)

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Taborsky, M.; Fewell, J. H.; Gilles, R.; Taborsky, B.: Division of labour as key driver of social evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1922), 20230261 (2025)

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Thomas, W. R.; Richter, T.; O'Neil, E. T.; Baldoni, C.; Corthals, A.; von Elverfeldt, D.; Nieland, J. D.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Hunter, R.; Davalos, L. M.: Seasonal and comparative evidence of adaptive gene expression in mammalian brain size plasticity. eLife 13, Rp100788 (2025)

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Tomasek, M.; Soller, K.; Jordan, A.: Wild fish use visual cues to recognize individual divers. Biology Letters 21 (2), 20240558 (2025)

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Valença, T.; Cardoso, E.; Falótico, T.: Predatory attack on a bearded capuchin monkey by a Boa constrictor. Primates (2025)

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Veríssimo, J.; Curto, M.; Alves, M. J.; de Almeida, P. R.; Aparicio, E.; Clavero, M.; Chaves, C.; Fernandez-Delgado, C.; Hernández, J.; Jentoft, S. et al.; Kalous, L.; Magalhães, M. F.; Martins, F. M. S.; Mateus, C. S.; Nogueira, J. G.; Oliveira, I.; Perdices, A.; Rocaspana, R.; Ribeiro, F.; Risueño, P.; Pou i Rovira, Q.; Queirós, J.; Santos, C. D.; Teixeira, A.; Veríssimo, A.; Volta, P.; Beja, P.; Gante, H. F.; Lopes-Lima, M.: The mitochondrial genomes of Iberian freshwater and diadromous fishes. Scientific Data 12 (1), 349 (2025)

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Waade, P. T.; Olesen, C. L.; Laursen, J. E.; Nehrer, S. W.; Heins, R. C.; Friston, K.; Mathys, C.: As one and many: relating individual and emergent group-level generative models in active inference. Entropy 27 (2), 143 (2025)

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Weissensteiner, M. H.; Delmore, K.; Peona, V.; Ramos, J. S. L.; Arnaud, G.; Blas, J.; Faivre, B.; Pokrovsky, I.; Wikelski, M.; Partecke, J. et al.; Liedvogel, M.: Combining individual-based radio-tracking with whole-genome sequencing data reveals candidate for genetic basis of partial migration in a songbird. Ecology and Evolution 15 (1), e70800 (2025)

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Wild, T.; Wikelski, M.: Autonomous data logger. EP Patent, p. EP4285084B1 (2025)

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Yanco, S. W.; Rutz, C.; Abrahms, B.; Cooper, N. W.; Marra, P. P.; Mueller, T.; Weeks, B. C.; Wikelski, M.; Oliver, R. Y.: Tracking individual animals can reveal the mechanisms of species loss. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 40 (1), pp. 47 - 56 (2025)

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Yang, P.-P.; Li, W. B.; Crofoot, M. C.; Chakravarty, P.; Wang, X.; Zhang, T.; Li, J. H.: Ecological and social pressures influence diel activity patterns in wild Tibetan macaques. American Journal of Primatology 87 (3), e70016 (2025)

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Zhai, Y.; Zheng, X.; Chao, L.-M.; Li, S.; Xiong, M.; Jia, Y.; Li, L.; Xie, G.: An interpretable approach to estimate the self-motion in fish-like robots using mode decomposition analysis. Nature Communications 16 (1), 3887 (2025)

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Zou, Y.; Song, Z.; Chen, J. N.; Sun, Y. H.; Griesser, M.: Female budgerigars prefer males with foraging skills that differ from their own. Animal Cognition 28 (1), 9 (2025)

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Acácio, M.; Gahm, K.; Anglister, N.; Vaadia, G.; Hatzofe, O.; Harel, R.; Efrat, R.; Nathan, R.; Pinter-Wollman, N.; Spiegel, O.: Behavioral plasticity shapes population aging patterns in a long- lived avian scavenger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (35), e2407298121 (2024)

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Aikens, E. O.; Nourani, E.; Fiedler, W.; Wikelski, M.; Flack, A.: Learning shapes the development of migratory behavior. PNAS 121 (12), e2306389121 (2024)

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Albery, G. F.; Webber, Q. M. R.; Farine, D. R.; Picardi, S.; Vander Wal, E.; Manlove, K. R.: Expanding theory, methodology and empirical systems at the spatial–social interface. Philosophical Transactions B 379 (1912), 20220534 (2024)

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Allan, A. T. L.; LaBarge, L. R.; Bailey, A. L.; Jones, B.; Mason, Z.; Pinfield, T.; Schroeder, F.; Whitaker, A.; White, A. F.; Wilkinson, H. et al.; Hill, R. A.: Behavioural compatibility, not fear, best predicts the looking patterns of chacma baboons. Communications Biology 7 (1), 980 (2024)

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Amichay, G.; Li, L.; Nagy, M.; Couzin, I. D.: Revealing the mechanism and function underlying pairwise temporal coupling in collective motion. Nature Communications 15 (1), 4356 (2024)

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Antonic, N.; Zakir, R.; Dorigo, M.; Reina, A.: Collective robustness of heterogeneous decision-makers against stubborn individuals. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 68 - 77 (2024)

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Bak-Coleman, J.; Devezer, B.: Claims about scientific rigour require rigour. Nature Human Behaviour (2024)

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Becker, D. J.; Dyer, K. E.; Lock, L. R.; Olbrys, B. L.; Pladas, S. A.; Sukhadia, A. A.; Demory, B.; Batista, J. M. N.; Pineda, M.; Simmons, N. B. et al.; Adams, A. M.; Frick, W. F.; O'Mara, M. T.; Volokhov, D. V.: Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species. mSphere (2024)

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Behringer, V.; Deimel, C.; Ostner, J.; Fruth, B.; Sonnweber, R.: Modulation of cell-mediated immunity during pregnancy in wild bonobos. Biology Letters 20 (3), 20230548 (2024)

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Behringer, V.; Sonnweber, R.; Hohmann, G.; Stevens, J. M. G.; Verspeek, J.; Kivell, T. L.: A non-invasive measure of bone growth in mammals: Validating urinary CTX-I as a bone resorption marker through long-bone growth velocity in bonobos. Ecology and Evolution 14 (9), e70326 (2024)

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Behringer, V.; Sonnweber, R.; Hohmann, G.; Stevens, J. M. G.; Verspeek, J.; Kivell, T. L.: A non-invasive measure of bone growth in mammals: Validating urinary CTX-I as a bone resorption marker through long-bone growth velocity in bonobos. Ecology and Evolution 14 (9), e70326 (2024)

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