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Database of 679 bat species around the world

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.

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Under (blood) pressure

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.

Meg Crofoot receives ERC Consolidator Grant

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.

New Zukunftskolleg Research Award

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.

No time to nap in nature

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…

AI experts and ecologists join forces to revolutionize wildlife research

A team of experts in artificial intelligence and animal ecology have put forth a new, cross-disciplinary approach intended to enhance research on wildlife species and make more effective use of the vast amounts of data now being collected thanks to new technology. Their study appears today in Nature Communications.

Saving animal lives using Big Data

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.