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An international team, including researchers from the University of Konstanz and co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, trains computers to tell individual birds apart—a task humans cannot do—overcoming one of the greatest limitations in the study of wild birds.

New study by researchers from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, the co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and the University of Texas at Austin finds that groups led by subordinate males outperform those led by dominant and aggressive males.

Affiliate CASCB member, Gisela Kopp, is one of ten new members elected to the academy of outstanding young scientists.

Part of an international effort to study how reduced human mobility has affected wildlife, Researchers Martin Wikelski and Matthias Loretto introduce “COVID-19 Bio-Logging Initiative” in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Author of a new study showing that humans disturb the social lives of wild giraffes. Damien Farine discusses why disrupted relationships may be a silent killer for social species—even one of the world’s most recognizable animals.

Lisa-Marie Walther and Alisa Auer redirect their PhD research to tackle one of the most pertinent issues of the pandemic: stress in response to the coronavirus crisis. “This is a chance to investigate stress in the collective in an extraordinary moment in history.”

Konstanz collective behaviour researchers are traveling to Kenya to study movement and decision-making of locusts in the current swarms—generating fundamental insights for predicting future outbreaks

Psychologists from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour--Helge Giese, Hans Neth, and Wolfgang Gaissmaier--provide the first rigorous look at how our attitudes towards vaccines are shaped by online forces. Turns out, social influence plays a small role.

In the last decade, papers by Iain Couzin and Damine Farine have ranked among the most highly cited by scientists across multiple fields—signalling the impact of interdisciplinary collective behaviour research on the broader scientific discussions of our time.