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Friday, 27. June 2025

A close look at recreational boating on German lakes

© W. Ostendorp

Motorized aquatic sports negatively impact the ecology of lakes in Germany. Researchers at the University of Konstanz and the Landesumweltamt Brandenburg (Brandenburg State Office for the Environment) recently published a comprehensive study on the topic.
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Friday, 06. June 2025

Tower power

© Daniela Perez, MPI-AB

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature.
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© Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Tuesday, 20. May 2025

Capuchin monkeys develop bizarre “fad” of abducting baby…

How cameras on a remote island captured the origin and spread of a novel social tradition

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Wednesday, 14. May 2025

Time-travelling mammoths?

© Image by Виталий, Pixabay

You can't always believe everything you see. Laura Epp and her team at the University of Konstanz recently had this experience when they studied very young sediment layers and found DNA from long-extinct mammoths. How do researchers respond to such surprising results?
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Thursday, 20. March 2025

Follow the fish's gaze

© Lone Jensen, pexels

In swarm research, a new method makes it possible to track the eye movements of fish automatically, non-invasively and in 3D.
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Thursday, 27. February 2025

Scientists rewrite the rules of swarming locusts

A study recently published in Science reveals: Classical models of collective behaviour fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms – an ecological phenomenon that affects millions of lives worldwide.
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Wednesday, 26. February 2025

"Expressions of gender variance have long been part of…

© Kyle, Unsplash

Donald Trump bans trans people from the U.S. army and from sports. Historian Jacob Bloomfield from the University of Konstanz concludes: "Trump’s executive order goes against basic fairness and the military’s historical acceptance of gender variance."
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© Dominic Cram

Friday, 21. February 2025

Alliances among animals

Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species.

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Thursday, 13. February 2025

YOLO-Behaviour: A new and faster way to extract animal…

© Alex Chan Hoi Hang, University of Konstanz

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour introduce the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviours from videos.
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Tuesday, 11. February 2025

The art of sharks

© Angela Albi

Turquoise blue sea, fine sandy beaches and impressive photos of sharks and schools of fish – sounds like an adventurous vacation, but is above all one fascinating research topic of the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behaviour".
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