Tag: Behavioral research
Clownfish can count to three – knowledge
Many animals have some kind of basic mathematical understanding. Turtles, for example, can calculate their energy balance and even take into account how much energy they use to get to…
Behavioral biology: Is my cat still normal? – Knowledge
Almost all domestic cats are curious about new things. Almost no one constantly marks furniture or trouser legs. At least that’s what the evaluation of hundreds of questionnaires filled out…
AI researcher Joscha Bach: “There are things that are more important than our ego” – Economy
At the Neurips in New Orleans, the largest conference for artificial intelligence (AI), the natural sciences recently dominated the discussions: mathematical formulas, the computing power of huge cloud computers, increasing…
AI researcher Joscha Bach: “There are things that are more important than our ego” – Economy
At the Neurips in New Orleans, the largest conference for artificial intelligence (AI), the natural sciences recently dominated the discussions: mathematical formulas, the computing power of huge cloud computers, increasing…
The chickens cluck: people can hear how the animals feel – knowledge
It sounds like a broadcast from “Wetten, dass…” Thomas Gottschalk runs across the stage with a spring in his step. A candidate stands next to a bunch of chickens, her…
Monkeys recognize their friends after decades of separation – knowledge
Chimpanzees use tools, maintain friendships and enmities, help each other and even treat their wounds. To the long list of abilities that were long thought to be uniquely human until…
Food too hard? Cockatoos have one trick – knowledge
When it comes to food, goff cockatoos are very inventive: They make tools to get food that they can’t reach with their beaks. In the lab, they pull, push or…
When wild animals help people – knowledge
When the Yao people in Mozambique crave something sweet, they don’t buy a chocolate bar or gummy bear. They attract a honey indicator. The approximately twenty centimeter tall, brown and…
Konrad Lorenz – what remains of his legacy? Interview with author Ilona Jerger – Munich
The life and work of the famous and controversial behavioral scientist Konrad Lorenz are full of contradictions. The author Ilona Jerger places them in a new novel – and is…
Exceptionally clever falcons live in the Falkland Islands – knowledge
Anyone who wants to observe the behavior of wild animals usually has to have a lot of patience: it takes a lot of time just for the animals to get…