Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence in Martinsried seek to understand how such a complex system as the brain can develop, how it functions and what happens when it is injured or attacked by germs.
capable of a few vigorous tail movements and not much else
By dispersing seeds, animals can rapidly reestablish plant diversity in degraded forests
focused on increasing one thing—trees—over anything else
When laying their eggs, tobacco hawkmoths avoid plants that smell of caterpillar feces. An olfactory co-receptor allows moths to avoid intraspecific competition.
caterpillars and therefore lay their eggs somewhere else
In Australia, cockatoos and humans are in an arms race over garbage access
street, so they get their inspiration from someone else
That which motivates a football team to committed teamwork could also benefit climate change. The members of a group act in a particularly selfless manner and for the benefit of the group, especially when their community is in competition with others. They are then more likely to accept disadvantages themselves in order to punish members of their group who behave selfishly. A research group headed by the economics researcher Lauri Sääksvuori at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena has gained this insight by conducting investigations involving game theory. This could result in a way of spurring people on to save energy.
group members no longer wait to see whether somebody else
Study with 950 managers from a public institution investigates frequency and causes of defensive decisions.
meet with less resistance, or ensure that someone else
Study of jazz musicians reveals how the brain processes improvisations
to his ability to take the perspective of someone else
An international team of scientist has for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia.
publication Catherine Doust, Pierre Fontanillas, Else
A team of scientists discovered that people carry hazardous compounds from cigarette smoke into non-smoking environments.
compounds that make up cigarette smoke, depending on who else
The song of male songbirds has the function of repelling rivals and attracting mates. Females often pay attention to certain features within a song, such as the “sexy syllables”, to assess the quality of the singing male. A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen and the University of Copenhagen, headed by Henrik Brumm, has now discovered that rock sparrows indicate their age and reproductive success with their songs and react to infidelity with a higher song volume. The scientists found that the tempo, pitch and amplitude of song reflect male reproductive success. Cuckolded males regardless of whether they were young or old, sang louder.
gaining more extra-pair young, whereas there is nothing else
