
Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior
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Myriads of organisms migrate. We strive to predict animal decisions on their journeys, interactions with environment, and consequences on ecosystems and humans.
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Our first golden eagle study Safi_Lab @safilabmpi is published in eLife - the journal! We propose using the ecological niche concept to discuss energy landscape variations, and show that for golden eagles, the realized energy landscape expands with age elifesciences.org/articles/98818


Even the mighty eagle has to learn to fly, optimising the extraction of atmospheric energy with experience published in eLife - the journal. Only through time they unravel the full potential of their morphing energy landscapes. Elham Nourani Vogelwarte_Science Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior

Do animals have better societies than humans? Meg Crofoot Ecology of Animal Societies answers this timely question in a thoughtful doco ARTE (Language is 🇩🇪 but captions can be set to English) Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour arte.tv/de/videos/1155…


New study on blackbird migration by Nils Linek @scottyanco is out today and covered by NYT Science 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛ Read the MS NatureEcoEvo nature.com/articles/s4155… Congrats to the team Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior nytimes.com/2024/09/18/sci…


Snell, Aldará, Hammer, Thorup doi.org/10.1016/j.jthe… Thermal stress during incubation in an arctic breeding seabird. Katherine Snell, Sjúrður Hammer, PhD 🇫🇴 @[email protected], MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, BirdMigrationLab, University of Copenhagen Research, Universität Konstanz


You know it's October when references to Halloween begin 🎃👻 Bats, of course, are the stars. Go to the dark side tomorrow with an online talk about bats Smithsonian Panama Rachel Page, Teague O'Mara + dechmannlab ⭐️ discuss their book with📸by Christian Ziegler libraryc.org/mcpl/57523


📢Pls RT Looking for a #PhD in #quantitative #biology #evolution or #ecology? Or know someone who is? Applications are open for PhDs starting 2025 Universität Konstanz IMPRS-QBEE #locusts #moths #meerkats #lemurs #hyenas #nematodes #baboons Need we say more? ➡️imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current


🥳 Our kids book is out!! 🎉 Uschi Müller proves that you’re never too young for #biologging 🐐🌋📡 Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior #icarus

#Halloween comes to MPI-CBG Dresden. First science, #bats (of course), by Dina Dechmann ⭐️ MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full house (of course). Organized by our amazing #Postdocs, of course. The afternoon/evening will be wild! 🦇🎃👻💀


This blog post tells the #storybehindthepaper and shows how vegetation structure influences hornbill movement decisions and resulting patterns of seed dispersal. 🌱 buff.ly/3C4dSFf @razorbill10, Elsa Ordway, Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior, António Ferraz 🛩🛰🌳🐒


Need a gift idea? Our book "Salvatore and the Goats of Mount Etna" is now available in the UK, US, and Canada! Suitable for kids aged 5-8 (and for all of us who believe we can listen to animals). Buy the book by Uschi Muller Greystone Kids here ➡️outpage.co/9176685871377

Pokrovsky et al. (2024) Foxtrot migration and dynamic over-wintering range of an Arctic raptor eLife - the journal doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… | Ivan Pokrovsky MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior Teja CURK | #ornithology #birdmigration


Latest magazine feature from Christian Ziegler is out in National Geographic 🥳 Read about the secret strength of cacti and see beautiful photos by Christian and Victor Ammann shot in Mexico 🌵🏜️ nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

🎉Congartulations to Cecilia Baldoni Cecilia Baldoni 👩🎓, who defended her thesis "From summer growth to winter decline: brain size, captive effect, and cognitive outcomes in the common shrew during Dehnel's phenomenon" with Martin Wikelski, Dina Dechmann ⭐️, and Dominik von Elverfeldt



Great to see so many Movebank developers and users in one place Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior Safi_Lab @safilabmpi



We migrated - be sure to find us at Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior.bsky.social 📷Christian Ziegler
