Online version ISSN 2594-9985

ABOUT THIS JOURNAL

• Basic information

The Current Ethology, is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original papers such as research articles, theoretical papers, critical reviews, short communications on all aspects of animal behavior, including human behavior. Manuscripts can address basic or applied research topics conducted under conditions of captivity or in the field. Studies describing formally and comprehensively the behavior of understudied species are also considered.

Current Ethology is organized into the following major areas:

Applied Ethology: Studies directed to important issues on the management of domesticated production and companion animal species, covering animal well-being, human-animal relationships, natural behaviors and production systems, feralization and basic behavioral processes of domesticated animals.

Conservation Behavior: Studies with a strong empirical basis directed to important issues on the conservation and management of animals, including animal welfare, anthropological interference and environmental changes resulting from human activities, management in captivity and in the wild, reintroduction and translocation of wildlife. Studies of interest also aim at understanding the behavioral mechanisms involved in genetic and demographic processes affecting the persistence of populations.

Neuroethology: Studies regarding the neural basis of animal behavior, emphasizing its evolution, development, causes and function. Researches involving comparative aspects of behavior in relation to the evolution of the nervous system are particularly welcome.

Behavioral ecology: Studies related to the ecological and evolutionary bases of animal behavior. Investigations regarding the cause and the adaptive significance of behavioral variations among individuals, populations and species. Social behavior and social systems.

Evolutionary psychology: Studies of the psychological adaptations in humans in response to changes in the physical and social environment, using as a reference Darwin´s theory of evolution. Investigations of evolved psychological mechanisms and how these mechanisms helped solve issues of survival and reproduction of our ancestors are also welcome.

Evolution of behavior: Studies that seek to evaluate the variability of behavior from an evolutionary perspective, either through the consequences of this variation for fitness or by identifying the processes that drive the establishment of a behavioral strategy. Studies can use either a comparative or an explicitly phylogenetic approach and, in the latter case, may propose phylogenies or interpret behavioral change through a known phylogeny.

Animal cognition and communication: Studies using an evolutionary perspective to understand information processing (learning, memory, problem solving, perception and communication) in human or non-human animals.

Behavioral theories: Studies aimed at the construction of systematic bodies of knowledge in ethology, through the conceptual clarification of theoretical integration, the examination of the consequences of an established theory and the review of agreements and disagreements between theory and empirical basis.