We’re delighted to welcome @valmazza.bsky.social as our first keynote speaker!

She shared insights from her work on cognitive ecology at the human–wildlife interface - are city dwellers more flexible than their rural counterparts?

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And we’re on! 🎉 This year’s Graduate Meeting “Animal Behaviour” has officially kicked off at the University of Münster!

We’re looking forward to an amazing meeting in an amazing venue. #gradbehav26

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A busy poster session! 🐝 Buzzing discussions, great exchanges, and a fantastic atmosphere! #gradbehav26

An annual highlight! 🎉 It’s always a pleasure to work with such a brilliant team (@ahanaaurora.bsky.social and Sabine Kraus) to organise this event every year and discover a new place together with a fantastic group of participants!

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Our first session focuses on communication across various animal taxa: adaptation of vocal signatures in lemurs, comprehension of alarm calls in monkeys, and social behaviour and vocalisations in bats.

A strong start to the meeting by Saskia Müller, Christian Luff, and Wiebke Berns. #GradBehav26

Our first session today is all about migration. Fantastic talks on migratory behaviour of common terms and social dispersal in burying beetles, delivered by Sofia Ventura and @sciencepaulh.bsky.social!

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We started our #gradbehav26 with an impressive first session about vocal communication, ranging from trills in Grey Mouse Lemurs @Saskia Müller, Diana monkeys reacting to alarm calls @Christian Luff and social behaviours in Greater horseshe bats @Wiebke Berns 🥳🥳🥳 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

And we continued with the first splendid plenary talk from our first invited speaker @valeriamazzagatti.bsky.social who introcuded us who one can elegantly bring together cognition research and conservation @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social #gradbehav26

Our next session takes a deeper look into captive animal behaviour - we explored differences in individuality between wild and lab gerbils, and how cat vocalisations can be used as an indicator of pain and stress.

Great talks by @saskiasp.bsky.social and Laura Lucille Kühne!

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We’re excited to welcome our second keynote speaker, Helene Richter!

She shares key insights on reproducibility in animal research, along with practical tools and approaches to help improve it.

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