行为研究进展的目标仍然是自该系列开始以来的目的：通过向同事和邻近的同事介绍他们的理论思想和研究，为越来越多的从事动物行为研究的科学家提供服务。领域。 我们希望该系列将继续其“对该领域发展的贡献”，因为它的预期作用在1965年第一卷的前言中有所表述。从那时起，传统的动物行为领域通过这些联系取得了新的活力。 它们与相关领域以及现在存在于动物和人类学科之间的更密切关系形成。
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.