Schalcher et al. find that moonlight changes how barn owls hunt: white males face the Moon and select brighter conditions, whereas red males remain more cryptic. These color-dependent strategies revea...

Les chouettes blanches tirent activement profit de la réflexion de la lune sur leur plumage pour tétaniser et capturer leurs proies: pour maximiser leur visibilité – et donc l'effet de surprise provoq...

Wood from gravesites can help reconstruct historic temperatures, floods, and droughts

Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

<em>Functional Ecology</em> journal publishes high-impact research providing a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to ecosystem scale.

Post provided by Andrea Kölzsch. I am a movement ecologist and have until recently worked as a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Radolfzell, Germany. My research focusses, o…

Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University

Changes in prey availability can lead to mismatches between consumers and resources, decreasing the fitness of consumers, especially during periods of…

More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o...