Did you know that there are approximately 20 quadrillion (sic!) ants on our planet? As part of our DZG-multidisciplinary session, Patrick Schultheiss is presenting his research on how these fascinating invertebrates navigate their environment 🐜🧭 #DZG2024

After the annual DZG meeting is before the Graduate Meeting 'Animal Behaviour'. You can still register to attend—it's free! #DZG2024 #gradbehav24 #AnimalBehaviour 🔗dzg-ev.de/en/section-gro…

Less than a week until our Graduate Meeting kicks off! Super excited about this one! 🙌 See you all in Rostock/Dummerstorf next week! 📍 Programme and info: dzg-ev.de/en/section-gro…

🚀 And we are off for a great graduate meeting! #gradbehav24 🎓

🐖 We’re kicking off with our session on Animal Welfare! First up is Nick Westendorff (FBN Dummerstorf) discussing area-specific monitoring of activity and vocalization in pigs. #gradbehav24

🦃 Our second speaker in the welfare session is Jessica Raabe (FLI Celle), who outlines her PhD project on sound-based parameters as bioacoustic indicators for the welfare of fattening turkeys. #gradbehav24

🐕 The final speaker of our welfare session was Svenja Capitain (Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology), showcasing her results on how human greeting behaviour is perceived by dogs and wolves - looking at dog and human behaviour. #gradbehav24

👏 Today's final talk was delivered by our first invited speaker, Katja Liebal (University of Leipzig), on her team's cross-cultural approach to children’s attitudes towards other animals. Interesting to see how these differ between farm, wild and pet animals! #gradbehav24

🌟 Day 2 kicks off with an exciting session on acoustic communication! 🎤 Our first speaker, Lena Dressler, explores Proboscis Bat communication through playback experiments.🦇 #gradbehav24

Excited for our second speaker today! 🌟 Dialects in bats? Franziska Eberhardt (Natural History Museum Berlin) presents her research on macro and micro dialects in neotropical Proboscis bats. 🦇 #gradbehav24

Next up is Marisa Tietge (Natural History Museum Berlin), sharing her work on the temporal stability of learned song dialects in greater sac-winged bats! 🦇🎶 (Have you noticed a slight taxa and topic bias yet? 😉) #gradbehav24

Wrapping up our acoustic communication session with Sophie Holtz from Free University of Berlin! 🎤 She’s discussing her research on mapping neural substrates for producing functionally different vocalization types in bats. 🦇 #gradbehav24

🌰✨ How smart are squirrels and why should we care? Our second keynote speaker, Pizza Chow (Uni Chester), is exploring the fascinating problem-solving behavior of these amazing critters! #gradbehav24

🌟 Kicking off the last day of our Graduate Meeting! First up, Eva Mardus (Natural History Museum Berlin) discusses her fascinating research on numerical competence in bats. Do bats count? 🦇 #gradbehav24

Next up: Jana Deutsch (FBN Dummerstorf) will share the first results of her PhD project on developing an affect-driven attention bias test for goats! Are goats scared by the wolf?🐐💡 #gradbehav24

The last speaker of the session, and of our Graduate Meeting, is Alvaro L. Caicoya (FBN Dummerstorf). He is assessing whether pigs console each other in stressful situations. 🐖❤️ A great teaser before we start touring our pig and goat facilities! #gradbehav24

🎉 Talk and poster prizes are in! We've seen so many impressive presentations and posters, but we had to choose. Congrats to Eva Mardus for Best Talk and Anustup Bandyopadhyay for Best Poster! 🏆👏 #gradbehav24

Last but not least – no meeting at FBN Dummerstorf without a visit to the animal facilities. 🐷🐐 Clever pigs and goats all the way! #gradbehav24

Thank you all for a great Graduate Meeting! 🙌 And many thanks to @EthoGes and DZG for the amazing support! #gradbehav24

This account is shutting down soon! 🚨 We're moving to the other thing—follow us there (@dzg-behaviour.bsky.social) for news related to animal behaviour research! 🎉