Collective Behaviour

Extraordinary new discoveries about how otherwise-solitary octopuses and various fish species coordinate their hunts: fish serve as guides, finding prey and flagging its location, and the octopus uses its flexible arms to capture the hidden prey. Their findings are now published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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.

The Imaging Hangar is a core facility of the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour. This state-of-the-art motion capture area is designed for the study of swarms of insects, small birds and mammals, humans, and robotic collectives.

Our community is made up of researchers from several disciplines, such as biology, computer science, economics, psychology, maths, physics, and sociology, and from two institutions – the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.

Collective behaviour is all around: At the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz we create a global hotspot for the integrated study of collective behaviour across a wide range of species and across scales of organization. With our CASCB movies we invite you to take a look at our research and dive into the swarm to learn more about us.