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Vulturine guineafowl move in highly cohesive groups. This cohesion allows them to coordinate their actions as they move together through the landscape, and therefore maintain stable group membership over extensive periods of time. Image credit: James Klarevas

Complex society discovered in birds

The first existence of a multilevel society in a non-mammalian animal shows that large brains are not a requirement for complex societies

Uncovering hidden intelligence of collectives

Research team including scientists from Konstanz discovers that information processing in animal groups occurs not only in the brains of animals but also in their social network.