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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Migrating birds choose routes with the best wind and uplift conditions, helping them to fly nonstop for hundreds of kilometers over the sea.