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01.03.2022

No time to nap in nature

The first study ever to examine sleeping behavior in a wild group of primates has challenged a central tenet of sleep science: that we must make up for lost sleep. Even after sleeping poorly, wild baboons still spent time on other priorities, such as socializing with group-mates or looking out for predators, rather than catching up on lost sleep. The team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of…

09.02.2022

AI experts and ecologists join forces to revolutionize wildlife research

A team of experts in artificial intelligence and animal ecology have put forth a new, cross-disciplinary approach intended to enhance research on wildlife species and make more effective use of the vast amounts of data now being collected thanks to new technology. Their study appears today in Nature Communications.

02.02.2022

CASCB Annual Report 2021 is published

Our second review of what we have accomplished in the year 2021 in the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour is out.

22.12.2021

Saving animal lives using Big Data

The Movebank ecosystem of tools offers a one-stop-shop solution to storing, sharing, and making sense of the deluge of data generated by the animal tracking revolution. The Big Data platform helps scientists study animal behavior and ecology, and it can save animal lives - by enabling large-scale conservation projects, but also in individual cases.

09.12.2021

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for Iain Couzin

Outstanding research on the "rules of the swarm": behavioural biologist Professor Iain Couzin from the University of Konstanz awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize, which is awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is the most important and most highly endowed research award in Germany.

09.12.2021

One algorithm to rule decision-making

Researchers uncover a single rule for how animals make spatial decisions while on the move – international research project lead by Konstanz scientists

16.11.2021

Iain Couzin among the world’s most influential scientists

Collective behaviour researcher Prof Iain Couzin from the University of Konstanz has been included in the 2021 list of the “Global Highly Cited Researchers” for the fourth time in a row.

18.10.2021

Neubau Center for Visual Computing of Collectives (VCC) an die Universität Konstanz übergeben

Finanzminister Dr. Danyal Bayaz hat am Montag (18. Oktober) gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftsministerin Theresia Bauer den Neubau des Center for Visual Computing of Collectives (VCC) an die Universität Konstanz übergeben. In dem neuen Forschungszentrum wird die Schwarmintelligenz von Tieren erforscht.

11.10.2021

Oliver Deussen zum Fellow der Gesellschaft für Informatik ernannt

Professor Dr. Oliver Deussen von der Universität Konstanz wurde von der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. im Rahmen ihrer Jahrestagung „INFORMATIK 2021“ zum Fellow ernannt.

07.10.2021

Genes and collective behaviour

Current study involving the University of Konstanz says: The targeted manipulation of individual genes in zebrafish larvae changes their behavioural responses to visual stimuli and thus affects the collective behaviour of the animals.