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Scientists from the University of Konstanz and co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have used high-resolution GPS tracking methods to provide new insights into how differently sized animal groups move and interact with their environment.

A global archive with movement data collected across three decades logs changes in the behaviour of Arctic animals. The archive is hosted on the Movebank platform at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Konstanz.

Concentrate on your own task but also pay attention to others—this is the key rule for success, at least for rats when exploring as a group

The animal tracking system in space, ICARUS, successfully concluded its test phase and starts scientific operations with a global study on the migration of blackbirds and thrushes – joint project of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Konstanz

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.