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January 14, 2025

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Using acoustic tools for conservation

Institute Seminar by Israel Maciel
  • Date: Dec 9, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Israel Maciel
  • Israel Maciel is a biologist with a PhD in Animal Biology from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2020, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and is currently also a lecturer at the same university. His expertise lies in bioacoustics and animal behavior, with over 15 years of experience in marine mammal research and conservation. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and contributes to national and international projects assessing the impact of anthropogenic noise on marine wildlife.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: eperinot@ab.mpg.de
The rapid and ongoing decline in global biodiversity highlights the need for effective conservation measures, which has transformed the monitoring of biodiversity into an essential diagnostic tool. Over the past few decades, studies in biodiversity monitoring have increasingly invested in the use of ... [more]

The ecology of collective behavior across oceanic scales

EAS Department Seminar by Will Oestreich
  • Date: Dec 10, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Will Oestreich
  • Will Oestreich studies animal behavior in dynamic and changing ecosystems. He is a group leader in the Department of Evolutionary Biology & Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, and an affiliated researcher with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Will has a particular interest in oceanic ecosystems, exploring how biophysical variation and information interact to shape behavior in the open and deep ocean. He also interrogates how we as humans can collectively understand, steward, & adapt to the changing ecosystems of which we are all a part.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Oceanic ecosystems comprise Earth's largest living space. In these vast, fluid, and mostly dark ecosystems, resources aggregate in patchy, fleeting hotspots of biological activity. These conditions pose immense challenges both for resident lifeforms and researchers seeking to elucidate their ... [more]
MPI-AB Behavioral Ecology Graduate Course poster

MPI-AB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course

MPI-AB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course: Lectures and discussions on behavioural ecology topics
  • Date: Dec 11, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alex Jordan, Caroline Schuppli, Andrea Flack, Kamran Safi, Brendan Barrett, Meg Crofoot, Serena Ding, Urs Kalbitzer, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin, Barbara Fruth
  • MPI-AB group leaders, directors, senior scientists
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: ajordan@ab.mpg.de
During Winter semester 2025/2026 we are offering a graduate course in Behavioural Ecology. It will run every Thursday, beginning with a lecture followed by a discussion on three papers in the area. The 13-week course is open to all students and postdocs. [more]

A unique center for urban bat rescue and monitoring in Ukraine - history from a war zone

Rado Seminar by Anton Vlaschenko
  • Date: Dec 12, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anton Vlaschenko
  • Dr. habil. Anton Vlaschenko is a bat researcher and conservationist with Ukrainian origin currently based in the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin. Anton is co-founders and a co-leader of the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre (Kharkiv), which is widely known in Ukraine and among bat researchers in Europe for its bat rescue measures. Beyond his work done to rescue bats, Anton is a head of the Education and Research Bat Biology Laboratory of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: aflack@ab.mpg.de
The urban landscapes of Ukrainian cities have become important winter habitats for bats due to the abundance of multi-storey Soviet-era buildings, which offer numerous roosting opportunities. Over the past 40-50 years, both the number of bat records and the diversity of bat species have ... [more]
Poster of course

MPI-AB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course

MPIAB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course: Lectures and discussions on behavioural ecology topics
  • Date: Jan 8, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alex Jordan, Caroline Schuppli, Andrea Flack, Kamran Safi, Brendan Barrett, Meg Crofoot, Serena Ding, Urs Kalbitzer, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin, Barbara Fruth
  • MPI-AB group leaders, directors, senior scientists
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB bücklestrasse 4.06
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: ajordan@ab.mpg.de
During Winter semester 2025/2026 we are offering a graduate course in Behavioural Ecology. It will run every Thursday, beginning with a lecture followed by a discussion on three papers in the area. The 13-week course is open to all students and postdocs. [more]

Institute Seminar by Claudio Sillero

Institute Seminar by Claudio Sillero
  • CANCELED
  • Date: Jan 13, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Claudio Sillero
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT 702 + online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: adeshpande@ab.mpg.de
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Poster of course

MPI-AB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course

MPIAB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course: Lectures and discussions on behavioural ecology topics
  • Date: Jan 15, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alex Jordan, Caroline Schuppli, Andrea Flack, Kamran Safi, Brendan Barrett, Meg Crofoot, Serena Ding, Urs Kalbitzer, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin, Barbara Fruth
  • MPI-AB group leaders, directors, senior scientists
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB bücklestrasse 4.06
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: ajordan@ab.mpg.de
During Winter semester 2025/2026 we are offering a graduate course in Behavioural Ecology. It will run every Thursday, beginning with a lecture followed by a discussion on three papers in the area. The 13-week course is open to all students and postdocs. [more]

Institute Seminar by John Benson

Institute Seminar by John Benson
  • Date: Jan 20, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: John Benson
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: lrosales@ab.mpg.de
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Poster of course

MPI-AB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course

MPIAB Behavioural Ecology Graduate Course: Lectures and discussions on behavioural ecology topics
  • Date: Jan 22, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alex Jordan, Caroline Schuppli, Andrea Flack, Kamran Safi, Brendan Barrett, Meg Crofoot, Serena Ding, Urs Kalbitzer, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin, Barbara Fruth
  • MPI-AB group leaders, directors, senior scientists
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB bücklestrasse 4.06
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: ajordan@ab.mpg.de
During Winter semester 2025/2026 we are offering a graduate course in Behavioural Ecology. It will run every Thursday, beginning with a lecture followed by a discussion on three papers in the area. The 13-week course is open to all students and postdocs. [more]

Applying Tinbergen’s four questions to a conservation problem: Tolerance to humans in a social desert species

Institute Seminar by Oded Berger-Tal
  • Date: Jan 27, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Oded Berger-Tal
  • Oded Berger-Tal is an associate professor in the Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His research group is conducting rigorous behavioral research aimed directly at mitigating conservation and wildlife management problems and advising the conservation and management decision-makers in Israel and beyond. In the past few years, in addition to conceptually developing the field of conservation behavior, he is focusing on topics such as developing non-lethal behavioral interventions to alleviate human-wildlife conflict, examining the impacts of various aspects of noise pollution (including infra-sound) on wildlife, understanding the mechanisms of high-tolerance to humans in wild Nubian ibex, studying the impacts of tourism on wildlife, and investigating the behavioral differences between animals utilizing anthropogenic environments and their less anthropogenically-exposed conspecifics.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: refrat@ab.mpg.de
Conservation behavior is the application of animal behavior knowledge and methodologies to help conserve species and ecosystems. In order to ensure that behavioral research can indeed be useful in conservation contexts, the choice of the study system and research question has to be made together ... [more]
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