05.10.2022
Prof. Thomas Bugnyar (head of the Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology) invited to the brand new Konrad-Lorenz Research Center of the Faculty in Life Sciences at Grünau/Almtal. The aim was to work with PhD candidates and Postdocs from different disciplines on new approaches and methods within social behavior and ecology in corvids. The well-known John Marzluff from University of Washington presented on neural circuits underlying the crow behavior, followed by data on movement ecology from postdocs Matthias Loretto and Petra Sumasgutner.
The idea of the workshop was to bridge wild and captive studies on corvids, mainly presented by PhD candidates (C. Blum, L.C. Vanhooland, A. Bapat, S. Damini, M. Gallego, D. Nagel, K. Wenig) and seconded by poster presentations of masters students. The discussion and development of new ideas was intense, only interrupted by demonstration of methods and outcome, eg. different capturing systems at the Cumberland gamepark, or social learning in common ravens during co-feeding with wild boar and wolves.
