New paper from our institute 📢 Kuijper et al. bring the ecology of the #wolf into a #European perspective 🐺🇪🇺 and argue that human-modified #ecosystems create novel functional roles of wolves. Journal of Applied Ecology Tom Diserens Elise Say-Sallaz Kathi Kasper
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⚡️Postdoc in sensory ecology!⚡️ 3 year position at Oxford Biology on colouration in fish schools! If antipredator colour, collective behaviour, fieldwork in nice places, and fun experiments with predatory fish is your thing, get in touch! Pls RT 🐟🐟🐠🐠💥jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ328/pos…

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Social organisation and vocal communication in wild zebra finches. Find more information here rb.gy/9fpzld
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Why fly alone if you can fly together! New study by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior shows white storks may be choosing to fly with others instead of alone.

The study also shows that young birds tend to tune their migrations to social hot-spots more than adults do.

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To all students and postdocs - Yangfan Peng is opening his lab Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin to study movement, and he is recruiting! You couldn't find a better, smarter supervisor who does seriously amazing science. From multipatch in vitro to large-scale recordings in vivo 🔥

Brønnvik et al. (2024) Experience reduces route selection for conspecifics by the collectively migrating white stork Current Biology doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… | Hester Brønnvik Elham Nourani Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | #ornithology #birdmigration

Are you or someone you know looking for a postdoc? Consider joining my lab at University of Wyoming where we use imaging and computer vision to study animal behavior in complex natural ecosystems. Collective behavior, salmon, migration, machine learning! kogerlab.com

Why fly solo when you can fly with friends?😊🙃New study shows that white #storks choose to fly together during migration, with younger storks, in particular, picking migration routes that are social hotspots! mpg.de/21823848/0412-… Hester Brønnvik Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Celebrating the milestone with a themed Dr. bird cake for group meeting! This one based on Figure 2 from our Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social Elham Nourani new paper. The interaction of conspecific density, uplift, and age predicts migratory route selection. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Yay and just wow to Hester Brønnvik and Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social for showing how young storks gain independence through experience. Huge success.

Woohoo!! 🥳🎉🍾Congrats on this great first PhD chapter!!!

Juvenile white storks selected migratory routes that overlap with social hot-spots. As they aged the strength of that selection decreased and they shifted their migration timing away from the peak.

Excited to share that our new paper on the link between experience and independence for a collective migrant is now out in Current Biology ! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…
Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social Elham Nourani Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

“Don’t look down” a puffin watches it watery world go by. 🌊🌊🌊 #wildlife photography #birdphotography #puffin #NatureLover #wildlife #Northumberland

East Antarctica 38.5C above seasonal average on March 18th.

Biggest jump in temperature ever recorded at a met station - anywhere on Earth.

Just staggering.

Make no mistake.

Anything is now possible. And I mean anything.

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Happy to share our new paper on the ontogeny of migration in Journal of #Ornithology DO-G This time amazing black storks. Great work by Bsc student Felix Fisel, and Georg Heine, Carsten Rohde, Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior photo: C Rohde link.springer.com/article/10.100…

One of the most horrifying graphics ever.

Remember, there's still time to apply for the PhD position in our DC2 project 'Migration Analysis'! The position is based at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany and you'll join the Collective Migration group led by Dr. Andrea Flack Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social - #WildDroneEU