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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…

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.

Our second review of what we have accomplished in the year 2021 in the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour is out.

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.

Outstanding research on the "rules of the swarm": behavioural biologist Professor Iain Couzin from the University of Konstanz awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize, which is awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is the most important and most highly endowed research award in Germany.

Researchers uncover a single rule for how animals make spatial decisions while on the move – international research project lead by Konstanz scientists

Collective behaviour researcher Prof Iain Couzin from the University of Konstanz has been included in the 2021 list of the “Global Highly Cited Researchers” for the fourth time in a row.

Finanzminister Dr. Danyal Bayaz hat am Montag (18. Oktober) gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftsministerin Theresia Bauer den Neubau des Center for Visual Computing of Collectives (VCC) an die Universität Konstanz übergeben. In dem neuen Forschungszentrum wird die Schwarmintelligenz von Tieren erforscht.

Professor Dr. Oliver Deussen von der Universität Konstanz wurde von der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. im Rahmen ihrer Jahrestagung „INFORMATIK 2021“ zum Fellow ernannt.