Nightingales match the pitch of their whistle songs to those of their rivals in real time
team studied a group of nightingales at their wintering grounds in The Gambia, West
Neu entdecktes Verhalten und Steinanhäufungen frei lebender Schimpansen erinnern an vom Menschen geschaffene Steinhaufen
für evolutionäre Anthropologie erforscht seit 35 Jahren frei lebende Schimpansen Wild
Blackcaps have variable migration strategies
: east of this imaginary line, the blackcaps migrate southeast in the fall, and west
Researcher Eduardo Sampaio of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Constance sailed around the Cape Verde coast aboard the Captain Darwin. He talks about a diverse but endangered underwater world, the mating behavior of octopuses, and how it is also possible to play a game of cat and mouse with fish.
respond to the rapid movements of a laser pointer, so it didn’t take long for a wild
Female gorillas must balance the reproductive costs of staying with or leaving an older male
© Vidrige Kandza/WCS-Congo In western lowland gorillas, groups consist of several
Pectorcal sandpipers have a huge breeding range across the Arctic.
“Some males even visited areas with suitable breeding habitat past the western and
On 13 February, a Russian rocket carried the antenna of the Icarus mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Icarus on-board computer was thus joined by another key component of the orbiting animal tracking system. Using the system developed by scientists from the Max Planck Society in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roskosmos, the German Aerospace Center and the University of Konstanz, researchers around the world will be able to study the movements of animals and determine the conditions in which they live.
Because the trajectory of the space station moves 2,500 kilometres to the west each
A recent study shows that, over the last two decades, areas with the greatest decrease in African great ape populations are those with no active protection from poaching by forest guards.
bonobos and gorillas over twenty years (1990-2009), located in 16 countries in East, West
A recent study shows that, over the last two decades, areas with the greatest decrease in African great ape populations are those with no active protection from poaching by forest guards.
bonobos and gorillas over twenty years (1990-2009), located in 16 countries in East, West
Regulating their body temperature to prevent overheating is a burden for chimpanzees living in the African savanna
now better able to understand what the consequences for the critically endangered western
