Articles in the magazine "MaxPlanckResearch"
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2013
Birds That Go Wild for the City
MaxPlanckResearch 4/2012
Fatal Fling
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2012
Life on the Move
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2012
Spectrum: "Just look at that!" Ravens gesticulate with their beaks to draw the attention of other ravens to objects
MaxPlanckResearch 4/2011
On Location: Amid the Colony
MaxPlanckResearch 4/2011
Songbirds with a Casanova Gene
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2011
Visit to Lake Constance
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2011
Joint Research in the Himalayas
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2011
On the Net - The Goose Whisperer
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2011
Biodiversity Must Be Restored. Recent decades have seen an accelerated extinction of wild plants and animals throughout the world. There is still a chance to stop it, at least in Germany. A simple model shows a way out of the bio - diversity crisis
MaxPlanckResearch 4/2010
FOCUS Orientation. On the Move with All Their Senses
MaxPlanckResearch 2/2010
Wire(less)tapping in the Aviary. What goes on in the heads of zebra finches when the males and females engage in a tête-à-tête?
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2008
Sleepless in Seewiesen. With the help of a wind tunnel, ornithologists are keen to find out whether migratory birds occasionally sleep with one brain hemisphere during long-distance flights
MaxPlanckResearch 4/2007
Macho Tendencies in Females
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2007
Bats cause a stir
MaxPlanckResearch 2/2007
Flashback. A World without Day or Night
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2007
The Advantages of Being Different. Zebra finches exhibit major differences in their mating and sexual behavior – from shy to aggressive. Evolutionary biologists question what advantages such a high degree of individuality can have
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2007
Too Tame for This World
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2006
Birds that Migrate to Britain Flock Together
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2005
City Life Boosts the Breeding Business
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2004
“Little Princess” majestically spreads her wings in noble flight
MaxPlanckResearch 2/2004
Bart Kempenaers. He has every reason to be optimistic: 37-year-old behavioral ecologist Bart Kempenaers has succeeded in making the leap from head of an independent Junior Research Group to Max Planck Director
MaxPlanckResearch 2/2004
Ultraviolet light guides tropical rain forest bats
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2004
The Great Communicator. On November 7, 2003, Konrad Lorenz would have been 100 years old. The Austrian ethologist, active at the Max Planck Institutes from 1950 to 1973, was not just the founder of comparative behavioral research, a Nobel Prize winner and, briefly, a Nazi sympathizer – he was also an outstanding advocate of the sciences whose works reached far beyond his own field. Konrad Lorenz made his own subject popular and he also made himself available for environmental protection issues, fighting against the construction of power plants and warning about the self-destruction of humanity
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2004
The Bigger the Brain, the Brighter the Being? Two and a half thousand years ago in ancient China, the various abilities of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish were exhibited in the zoological garden called the "Park of Intelligence"
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2004
Savoir-vivre – Anchored in the Genome
MaxPlanckResearch 2/2003
Excursion to the Imps of Darkness. At the prompting of the Max Planck Institute and a large number of other international scientific organizations, the Charles Darwin Research Station was founded on the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador in 1959
MaxPlanckResearch 3/2002
Stonechats in Dummy Test. Scientists at the Max Planck Research Centre for Ornithology are studying aggressive behaviour in stonechats
MaxPlanckResearch 1/2002
New “high-tech jewellery”
MaxPlanckResearch 4/2001
From the Prussian Desert to the Swabian Sea. The founding of the Rossitten Ornithological Station 100 years ago lent wings to the field of ornithology in Germany. Prof. Peter Berthold outlines its chequered history
MaxPlanckResearch 2/2001
The internal Clock’s Ability to remember Time. The birds’ pineal gland has a kind of "memory"
