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Mon, 19-10-2020

Why bad bosses can be lonely at the top

Scientists taught groups of fish to solve a task to earn a reward—and in the process shed light on why aggressive leaders might be the least effective

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Searching together: a lesson from rats

Concentrate on your own task but also pay attention to others—this is the key rule for success, at least for rats when exploring as a group

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Soziale Sicherung in Bangladesch: Eine Herausforderung für die Lokalregierungen

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Avoiding summer’s sting

Stinging insects—especially those with a predilection for our picnics—can be the sting in the tail of summer.

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© Image: Andy03/Pixabay

Fri, 10-07-2020

Collective behaviour research reveals secrets of successful football teams

Research team with participation of the University of Konstanz analyses movement profiles and teamwork of football teams

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© Image: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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The sixth sense of animals: an early warning system for earthquakes?

Continuously observing animals with motion sensors could improve earthquake prediction – a research project from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Be

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© Image: Anna Roik

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Stress testing “coral in a box”

Save the corals: Mobile rapid test to assess coral thermotolerance developed in an international collaboration with the University of Konstanz

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© Dolphin shelling. Image: Dr. Sonja Wild – Dolphin Innovation Project

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Shelling out for dinner – Dolphins learn foraging skills from peers

A new study by Konstanz biologist Dr Sonja Wild demonstrates for the first time that dolphins can learn foraging techniques outside the mother-calf bo

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© “Satellites” in the spectrum of a vibrating nanostring (lower image insert) for increasing drive power. The different brightnesses of the upper (green) and lower (blue) satellite encode the strength of the squeezing (upper image insert). Image: Weig group

Wed, 24-06-2020

Measure squeezing in a novel way

Scientists at the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz have developed a completely new method of measuring squeezing – a potential star

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© Image: Sonja Metzger

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The danger of broken bonds

Author of a new study showing that humans disturb the social lives of wild giraffes, Damien Farine discusses why disrupted relationships may be a sile

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Wed, 10-06-2020

Physics principle explains order and disorder of swarms

Physicist from the University of Konstanz prove correlation between behaviour of collective animal systems and a so-called “critical point”

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© Image: Alex Boehm

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Scientists dissect the complex choices of animals

Scientists from the Univeristy of Konstanz and the co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior turn to CT scanning and 3D printing technology t

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