Robin Reder - Undergraduate student at University of Konstanz
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My curiosity for nature began in my early childhood. I was fascinated by anything alive that crawled, buzzed and moved. The first word I managed to say was “Hermelin” (German for stoat), and in the following years my passion for animals led to hours spent in the forests trying to spot its inhabitants. I remember sitting at a raised hide watching a vixen with her two cubs when I was maybe 12 years old. Everything I observed I noted in a small pad I brought. By this time, I wanted to become an explorer and travel to remote places to discover unknown animals. After I finished school I started travelling, and wherever I went nature amazed me by its circuits and coherences. I wanted to get a deeper understanding in bionomics, so I started my bachelor´s degree at the university of Konstanz.
During the basic study in the first semesters I started to be more and more interested in animal behavior and how environmental inputs lead to decisions and actions in individuals and on a group level. Unfortunately there were not so many opportunities to focus on this topic in Konstanz those days. Luckily things have changed since then. When the department of collective behavior moved to Konstanz I was absolutely fascinated by the research they were doing. During the animal behavior course I realized that this is the branch I want to deepen my knowledge in. I applied for my bachelor thesis at the Farine Lab and am now taking my first steps in “real scientific work” in an amazing work group. |
