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Vultures' response to global change

Rado Seminar by Jonathan Eveso
  • Datum: 07.02.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Jonathan Eveso
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de

Five decades of research & conservation on African lions

Institute Seminar by Craig Packer
  • Datum: 04.02.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Craig Packer
  • Craig Packer is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. After completing his D.Phil. on primate behavior at the University of Sussex, he headed the Serengeti Lion Project for 37 years. He has published three books: “Into Africa” and “Lions in the Balance" for University of Chicago Press, and “The Lion: Behavior, ecology and conservation of an iconic species” for Princeton Press. He has published over 200 research papers, nearly 30 of which were published in Science and Nature, as well as articles for National Geographic, Natural History, and the Los Angeles Times. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. He has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his research has been covered by the New York Times, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and numerous other outlets worldwide.
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: nborrego@ab.mpg.de
After conducting extensive research on the origins of sociality and the evolution of the lion's mane, my research has become increasingly focused on the challenges of lion conservation. Lions are particularly difficult because of their enormous land requirements and the profound threat they pose to ... [mehr]

Wintering Strategies of SW-German Red Kites (Milvus milvus)

Rado Seminar by Maike Beckmerhagen
  • Datum: 31.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Maike Beckmerhagen
  • Ort: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
Winter presents many challenges for wildlife. With unpredictable food availability and fluctuating temperatures, they need effective strategies to survive. The Red Kite (Milvus milvus) is a partial migrant: while most individuals migrate during winter, a growing number remain at their breeding ... [mehr]

Causes and consequences of animal movement in an extensive system

Institute Seminar by Mark Whiteside
  • Datum: 28.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Mark Whiteside
  • I am both a behavioural ecologist and an applied ethologist. My research uses sensor-based technologies and controlled experiments to determine how early life can influence behavioural, cognitive and physiological development. My research concentrates on two animals, the pheasant and the sheep. Both these systems have animals that are captively housed for periods of their life, to then be released into wild, extensive environments where they need to navigate, forage and survive natural stressors. This allows me the unique opportunity to experimentally control their experiences and motivations (e.g. social, dietary, learning opportunities) and to describe their individual characteristics (behavioural, cognitive, physiological). After release I can then follow how these traits can influence their movement, behaviour, fate, production, welfare and their environmental impacts.
  • Ort: University of Konstanz + online
  • Raum: ZT 702
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: gabriella.gall@ab.mpg.de
Movement is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. It is often shaped by individual-level responses to risk and resource distribution as well as individual characteristics (e.g. cognitive ability, physiology) which can have fitness consequences and drive evolutionary pathways. In addition, the ... [mehr]

Linking Conservation & Movement Ecology in the Study of Migratory Raptors

Rado Seminar by Ron Efrat
  • Datum: 24.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Ron Efrat
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
As scientists, we aim to make a meaningful impact on the world through our studies. But what is more important – fundamental ecological research or applied conservation research? In my recent studies, I tried to find ways to integrate both fields. I will share some of my work on two endangered ... [mehr]

Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between social relationships and senescence

Institute Seminar by Erin Siracusa
  • Datum: 21.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Erin Siracusa
  • Dr Erin Siracusa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter. She is a behavioural ecologist with a specific focus on exploring how and why social interactions change across the lifespan and its consequences for other patterns of senescence. She specializes in using long-term mammal field studies, behavioural observations, and social network analysis to probe the evolutionary basis of sociality and its consequences for health and ageing.
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: estrauss@ab.mpg.de
Ageing affects many phenotypic traits, but the declines in social behaviour that occur with age have only recently become apparent. Given the well-established fitness benefits associated with social connectedness, understanding why this ‘social ageing’ occurs will be important for integrating ... [mehr]

Meta-Reflexivity: Foundations of a didactics of science communication

Rado Seminar by Colin Cramer
  • Datum: 17.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Colin Cramer
  • Ort: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Rubrik: Gesprächs- und Diskussionsformate, Vorträge
  • Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
Scientific research is a complex endeavour. At the same time, it is the task of scientists as part of the society to make central findings of research accessible to the general public. Current approaches tend towards a strong simplification and illustration of results. At the same time, however, it ... [mehr]

The energy landscape: what it is and how birds (learn to) use it

Institute Seminar by Elham Nourani
  • new location: Bücklestrasse
  • Datum: 14.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Elham Nourani
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: hbronnvik@ab.mpg.de
The physical characteristics of the environment largely determine the cost of transport for moving animals. This concept is termed "the energy landscape" and is particularly evident for soaring birds, as they exploit the atmospheric currents, both horizontal and vertical, to achieve low-cost ... [mehr]

Harnessing environmental justice to improve human-wildlife interactions

Institute Seminar by Christine Wilkinson
  • Datum: 07.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Christine Wilkinson
  • Dr. Christine Wilkinson is a conservation scientist, carnivore ecologist, and science communicator at the California Academy of Sciences and University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research is focused on the social-ecological drivers of human-wildlife interactions and carnivore movement through human-dominated landscapes in Kenya and California. Broadly, Dr. Wilkinson integrates participatory community engagement, wildlife ecology, and an environmental justice lens to better understand what may constitute equitable, just, and lasting human-nature relationships globally.
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: tmontgomery@ab.mpg.de
Human-wildlife interactions are fundamentally driven by both societal and ecological factors, and negative interactions (i.e., "conflicts") are often underpinned by environmental injustices. Integrating local community perspectives and histories with data on ecology and animal behavior can help us ... [mehr]

Myo-Inositol as a Key Regulator of Avian Metabolism: From Cellular Mechanisms to Seasonal Behaviour

Rado Seminar by Adi Domer-Yechezkel
  • Datum: 20.12.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Adi Domer-Yechezkel
  • Ort: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
I am an ecologist and a nature enthusiast. My fields of study include classical ecology and ecophysiology, particularly the evolutionary consequences of flight for animals’ physiological traits. My current research evaluates a longstanding conundrum in avian metabolism, namely blood glucose ... [mehr]
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