Jeanine Grütter, professor at the Department of Empirical Educational Research at the University of Konstanz and group leader at the CASCB, received a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship. The foundation announced the fellows for 2023-2025 on 22 November.
The MoveApps platform allows researchers and wildlife managers to quickly and easily analyze animal movement data – no special data analysis skills required. Now MoveApps has won the 2022 Conservation Tech Award. The free and open-source platform was developed by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in collaboration with the University of Konstanz.
Biologist Eduardo Sampaio researched octopuses off Cape Verde. He participated in a Citizen Science-led expedition that retraced the journey of Charles Darwin
Öffentlicher Vortrag der Biologin Yuko Ulrich, der ersten Preisträgerin des Zukunftskolleg-Forschungspreises, am 18. November 2022 an der Universität Konstanz
To sting or not to sting? An alarm pheromone plays a decisive role in bees' willingness to sting - and their group size, as scientists from the CASCB have now shown.
Rhythmic accuracy pays off, as researchers from Konstanz (Germany) and Israel show in their behavioural study on the courtship song of the rock hyrax. Males that sang more often and kept the beat with greater precision had higher reproductive success than their less rhythmically accurate peers.
Iain Couzin, co-spokersperson of the CASCB, is one of the Falling Walls Life Sciences Winner 2022. The prize is awarded to researchers who submitted "ground-breaking projects".