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A new large-scale research facility close by Konstanz allows the complex behaviour of animal groups to be studied in unprecedented detail

What impacts do agrochemicals have on the ongoing global insect decline? Biologists at the University of Konstanz have found out that aversive learning is impaired in bumblebees exposed to glyphosate. Their study is published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

ICARUS has begun testing its new satellite receiver that will continue uninterrupted tracking of animals from space.

Every year, the Werner und Erika Messmer Foundation awards three science prizes to young researchers from the University of Konstanz from the post-doc phase onwards. In 2023, Liang Li, group leader at the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz and a member of the CASCB, received the prize.

Teaser: The researchers Hemal Naik, Akanksha Rathore, and Vivek Hari Sridhar went to Rajasthan, India, to study the mating behaviour of blackbucks from a bird's eye perspective. Read what they encountered during six adventurous weeks in the field.

The Zukunftskolleg has just opened its 18th call for applications for five Postdoctoral Fellowships.

With a new marker less method it is now possible to track the gaze and fine-scaled behaviours of every individual bird and how that animal moves in the space with others. A research team from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz developed a dataset to advance behavioural research.

Once a year, a small forest in Zambia becomes the site of one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles. In November, straw-colored fruit bats migrate from across the African continent to a patch of trees in Kasanka National Park. For reasons not yet known, the bats converge for three months in a small area of the park, forming the largest colony of bats anywhere in Africa. The exact number of bats in this colony, however, has never been known. Estimates range anywhere from 1 to 10 million. A…

We congratulate Gisela Kopp member of the Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, the Zukunftskolleg, and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at the University of Konstanz – who was elected as the new chair of Die Junge Akademie.