Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour ASAB was founded in 1936 to promote the study of animal behaviour, and membership is open to all who share our interests.

There are now around 1000 members, the majority drawn from Britain and Europe. Many members are professional biologists who work in universities, research institutes, and schools. ASAB is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community, and aims to ensure fair and equitable representation and participation throughout all of ASAB’s activities and in the wider animal behaviour research comm

unity, irrespective of characteristics including but not limited to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

🦝Raccoons!💡Innovation!📦Multi-access box!🍗Optimal foraging!Our editor‘s choice for the : “Raccoons optimally forage for ...
30/04/2026

🦝Raccoons!💡Innovation!📦Multi-access box!🍗Optimal foraging!

Our editor‘s choice for the : “Raccoons optimally forage for information: exploration–exploitation trade-offs in innovation”

Read at: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123491

🐼Lemurs!🖊️Social learning!🫂Tolerance!🌐Diffusion analysis!  Our editors’ choice for the : “Social tolerance mediates soc...
21/04/2026

🐼Lemurs!🖊️Social learning!🫂Tolerance!🌐Diffusion analysis!
 
Our editors’ choice for the : “Social tolerance mediates social learning in wild red-fronted lemurs, Eulemur rufifrons, and ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta”
 
Read at doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123517

15/04/2026

🎊 Our runner up for the ASAB Video Competition, Taruna Verma, for “Mate Finding Strategies in Nasonia Males” 🎊

14/04/2026

🎉 Congratulations to the ASAB Video Competition winner Amaia Alcalde Anton! Check out her video: “What Did I Leave in the Fridge” 🎉 ��Want to know more? Read the paper this entry was based on: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0119

🐜Ants! 🍄‍🟫Fungal parasites! 👷‍♂️Task switching! 🏥Immune function!Editor’s choice for the : “Chronic fungal infection ac...
31/03/2026

🐜Ants! 🍄‍🟫Fungal parasites! 👷‍♂️Task switching! 🏥Immune function!

Editor’s choice for the : “Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response”
 
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123426

30/03/2026

We asked the researchers at if they could summarise their posters in 10 words or less - and they stepped up to the challenge 😍 (Also watch to the end for a celebrity cameo⭐️)

29/03/2026
You can read the original article open access at our journal, Animal Behaviour: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...
29/03/2026

You can read the original article open access at our journal, Animal Behaviour: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347226000011

A study published in the journal Animal Behavior says that birds from all over the world, from the Galápagos to New Zealand, are weaving discarded cigarette butts into their homes. Sometimes, they’re even nesting directly in actual, literal ashtrays.

Why? Because they provide a kind of natural/completely unnatural pesticide, with the ni****ne and heavy metals a human drags into the butts that seem to naturally repel parasites.

Photo by Andrei Sidorov on Unsplash

18/12/2025

Can you guess what the theme of the conference was?

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