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Tag: Behavioural research

Projects

13 June 2022

The crown is slipping

What if pigs are just as intelligent as dogs and animals have the same moral capacity as humans? The animal ethicist Judith Benz-Schwarzburg and her interdisciplinary team are exploring questions that challenge us to fundamentally rethink the relationship between humans and animals. Continue reading “The crown is slipping”

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28 March 2022

Need and recognition

Who deserves what or how much? While focusing on need is a fundamental principle in the discussion about equitable distribution, the assessment of what someone “needs” for their life is highly subjective. The social scientist Bernhard Kittel and his team areexploring what needs to happen so that others will accept an individual’s declared need as […] Continue reading “Need and recognition”

Projects

15 November 2021

Eavesdropping on courtship messages

During courtship and mating, male mice emit complex sounds that are beyond the human hearing threshold. In order to understand the function of these sounds, a research team led by the behavioural biologist Dustin Penn first had to develop methods to reliably record and evaluate these ultrasonic vocalisations. The findings revealed that mice do not […] Continue reading “Eavesdropping on courtship messages”
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4 October 2021

Fight or flight – it’s also in the genes

In the context of his Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship in the UK, Florian Reichmann set out to identify genes for aggressive behaviour. To this end, he examined the behaviour of zebrafish and found differences in the brains of particularly peaceful and particularly aggressive breeding lines. Continue reading “Fight or flight – it’s also in the genes”

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