Veranstaltungen am Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie

Eine Ausstellung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Verhaltensbiologie. Fotografien aus dem LuiKotale-Bonobo-Projekt und Informationsstationen zur modernen Verhaltensforschung, die heute digitale Methoden nutzt. [mehr]

When the Virginia opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed, her body temperature drops, her breathing and heart rate are reduced to a minimum, her tongue turns blue, and her glands simulate the smell of rot. Despite her convincing corpse disguise, the opossum is paying close attention to her ... [mehr]

Oceanic ecosystems comprise Earth's largest living space. In these vast, fluid, and mostly dark ecosystems, resources aggregate in patchy, fleeting hotspots of biological activity. These conditions pose immense challenges both for resident lifeforms and researchers seeking to elucidate their ... [mehr]

Data collection biases pose a persistent challenge in social network analysis, particularly in animal social network studies where observations are uneven, censored, and incomplete. These biases can lead to distorted network inference and incorrect conclusions about social behaviour. We present a ... [mehr]

How can we quantify the costs incurred by wild animals responding to anthropogenic disturbances? Declining population sizes of moose, a keystone species in boreal ecosystems, warrant a better understanding of disturbance responses in areas affected by climatic changes and expanding human influence ... [mehr]

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The Amazon contains over half of the planet’s remaining tropical forests and supports a disproportionately large share of global biodiversity. Yet this ecosystem faces escalating pressures, including accelerating deforestation, widespread fire use, and the growing impacts of climate change. These ... [mehr]

Workplace bullying is increasingly recognized as a serious threat to employee health and organizational sustainability, yet in the United States it is still framed primarily as a legal or interpersonal issue rather than a public health concern. Drawing on survey data from 729 higher education ... [mehr]

Workplace bullying is increasingly recognized as a serious threat to employee health and organizational sustainability, yet in the United States it is still framed primarily as a legal or interpersonal issue rather than a public health concern. Drawing on survey data from 729 higher education ... [mehr]

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Gulls are a taxonomic group of birds known for their flexible, opportunistic behaviour, their use of a wide range of habitats, and their strong response to human activities. Since 2008, we have GPS-tracked more than 800 individuals of seven gull species in Europe and three in the Americas. We have ... [mehr]

Large predators have a talent for stirring strong feelings. We admire them, fear them, argue about them, and then write long papers about how everything is going wrong. This talk takes a different path. It asks a simple question: what do large predators do for ecosystems—and why does that matter ... [mehr]

Expanding wind energy requires reliable ways to assess collision risks for birds, especially for protected species. We present a probabilistic framework that translates animal movement data into spatially explicit estimates of collision risk at wind turbines. Using GPS tracking of different breeding ... [mehr]

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Complex communication systems can emerge even among evolutionarily distant species, raising questions about how cues and signals evolve and support coordination. One striking case is the collaborative hunting between octopuses and reef-associated fish, where each partner exploits distinct foraging ... [mehr]

Animal behavior plays a central role in mediating species interactions and can generate cascading effects that influence ecosystem processes. In tropical ecosystems, behavioral responses to predators, competitors, and environmental disturbances can alter key ecological functions such as seed ... [mehr]