The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will continue its "contribution to the development of the field", as its intended role was phrased in the Preface to the first volume in 1965. Since that time, traditional areas of animal behavior have achieved new vigor by the links they have formed with related fields and by the closer relationship that now exists between those studying animal and human subjects.

行為研究進展的目標仍然是自該系列開始以來的目的：通過向同事和鄰近的同事介紹他們的理論思想和研究，為越來越多的從事動物行為研究的科學家提供服務。領域。 我們希望該系列將繼續其“對該領域發展的貢獻”，因為它的預期作用在1965年第一卷的前言中有所表述。從那時起，傳統的動物行為領域通過這些聯系取得了新的活力。 它們與相關領域以及現在存在于動物和人類學科之間的更密切關系形成。