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As part of the annual Postdoc Appreciation Week, the MPI of Animal Behavior together with the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour is organizing a Career Day at the University of KN on December 5th. The aim of the Career Day is to present alternative career options outside of ... [mehr]

African Parks Network (APN) is a non-profit organization that takes direct responsibility for the rehabilitation and long-term management of national parks and protected areas, in partnership with governments and local communities. We take a commercial approach to conservation, supported by donor ... [mehr]

During Winter semester 2025/2026 we are offering a graduate course in Behavioural Ecology. It will run every Thursday, beginning with a lecture followed by a discussion on three papers in the area. The 13-week course is open to all students and postdocs. [mehr]

Animals routinely face spatial decisions—where to forage, whom to follow, which refuge to choose—under uncertainty and time pressure, with limited energy and computation. Most theories of behavior address pieces of the problem—exploration, reward, or navigation—but few integrate them into a unified ... [mehr]

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In 2020–2021, we deployed the first ICARUS GPS transmitters on blackbirds from three populations. This was the first GPS-precision tracking of a songbird species, which yielded several interesting insights into the onset and direction of migration, as well as age-related differences in migratory ... [mehr]

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While evidence for interspecific differences in cognition is abundant, it is still unclear how these differences arise during evolutionary history. The current predominant theoretical framework gives importance to selection processes broken down into various adaptive scenarios, such as the ... [mehr]