In september many members of the research group "Sensory and cognitive ecology" went to the annual conference of the German Zoological Society taken place in Munich. Current reserach projects were introduced to scientific collegues in various talks and on posters. In october a short trip to the Lund Vision Group, cooperation partner for many visual projects, in Lund/Sweden followed. It was already the second symposium of this kind financed by a Scan Balt Bridge Award to Prof. Almut Kelber.