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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize laureate Iain Couzin talks about research for which he will use the prize money of 2.5 million euros

Katja Slangewal, doctoral student at the Univeristy of Konstanz, has been awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship

Krizler Tanalgo, former ZUKOnnect Fellow and affiliate member of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) has published one of the first and largest databases for bat cave conservation in Nature's Scientific Data.

Men with high blood pressure have a biased recognition of other people’s anger, as shown in a study by Alisa Auer and Professor Petra Wirtz from the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" at the University of Konstanz.

Professor Meg Crofoot and Professor Timo Müller, a biologist and literary scholar respectively at the University of Konstanz, each receive an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council funding their research for five years.

With the help of microrobots, Konstanz physicists decode how swarms of animals respond effectively to danger

Dr Fuhimiro Kano decodes the relevance of the human white of the eye for communication

The Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz is introducing a new research prize: the Zukunftskolleg Research Award commends excellent academic achievements by young researchers and helps them to further develop their academic profile. For the inaugural award in 2022, nominations for scientific work on “The Evolution of Behaviour” are invited.

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…