ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior is a research institute in Germany studying how animals perceive their environments, make decisions, communicate, move, and interact within social and ecological systems. Its researchers combine field studies, biologging, neuroscience, behavioral experiments, and computational methods to investigate migration, collective behavior, cognition, social organization, and the ways animals respond to environmental change.
Dog brains favor consonants when tracking words in speech, as people’s do, and wild orangutan infants that watched and tried more ended up with broader diets. Two Science papers, one shared idea about learning.