Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

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Waggle dance mysteries

How do bees navigate when the directions in the waggle dances by other bees are fuzzy? Dive into the intriguing research on bee behaviour, which occurs on the campus at the University Konstanz, to find out this research question.

Imaging Hangar

The Imaging Hangar stands as one of our core facilities. Explore the Imaging Hangar and our current project in this lab with a 360° tour.

Following your nose into the swarm

Locusts adapt their sense of smell to better detect sparse food sources in crowded swarms of up to billion animals, as researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz discovered. They published their results in the journal Nature Communication.

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Our goal is to uncover the fundamental principles that underlie collective behaviour – in a range of organisms and across scales of organization – and to translate this knowledge into real-world solutions that will bring about positive impact worldwide.

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Five pigeons are sitting on a green pole, presumably a railing. One pigeon is landing.

Focus first, then flee

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behaviour" at the University of Konstanz have discovered when pigeons sharply recognize a predator and at what moment they take flight.

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Möhre, Himbeere, Tomate, Walnuss, Paprika, Salat nebeneinander liegend.

Britta Renner beim Digital-Gipfel 2024

Beim diesjährigen Digital-Gipfel der Bundesregierung ist die Konstanzer Gesundheitspsychologin Britta Renner Co-Vorsitzende der Plattform zu Ernährung und Landwirtschaft.

Waggle dance mysteries

How do bees navigate when the directions in the waggle dances by other bees are fuzzy? Dive into the intriguing research on bee behaviour, which occurs on the campus at the University Konstanz, to find out this research question.

Illustration baboons on a cliff

The social side of sleep

Group sleeping can impact when animals sleep, how long they sleep for, and how deeply they sleep. For example, groups of meerkats time their sleep according to “sleep traditions”; olive baboons sleep less when their group size increases; bumblebees suppress sleep in the presence of offspring; and co-sleeping mice can experience synchronized REM sleep. To fully understand both sleep and animal social structures, we need to pay more attention to the “social side” of sleep, animal behaviourists…

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