Communication & Collective Movement Research Group
Illustration by Javier Lazaro
We are a research group led by Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, jointly affiliated with the Ecology of Animal Societies Department at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the Biology Department at the University of Konstanz
We study how vocal communication shapes group coordination in animal societies
We aim to understand how animals coordinate across different contexts in nature
Coordinated movement
Group threat response
Collective departures
Fission-fusion dynamics
We use a combination of different methods to tackle our research questions
Tracking entire social groups in the wild using multi-sensor collars
Direct field observations and targeted experiments
Longitudinal population monitoring (collaboration with long-term studies)
Machine learning to detect behaviors and vocalizations from sensor data
Illustration by Miriam Stepper
We study multiple species to search for common principles of collective behavior