''Animal Behaviour'' is a double-blind peer-reviewed

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established in 1953 as ''The British Journal of Animal Behaviour'', before obtaining its current title in 1958. It is published monthly by

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for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in collaboration with the Animal Behavior Society. It covers all aspects of

ethology Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behavior, behaviour of non-human animals. It has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American and German ornithology, ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th cen ...

, including behavioural ecology,

evolution Evolution is the change in the heritable Phenotypic trait, characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, re ...

of behaviour,

sociobiology Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution. It draws from disciplines including psychology, ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology, and population genetics. Within the study of ...

, behavioural

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, and

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and

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Abstracting and indexing

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 2.844.

References

External links

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Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

animal behaviour
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