ABS Membership Information

The Animal Behavior Society was founded in 1964 to promote the study of animal behavior in the broadest sense, including studies using descriptive and experimental methods under natural and controlled conditions.

Membership

Membership is open to persons engaged in the scientific study of animal behaviour, or interested in advancing such study. Current members' research activities span the invertebrates and vertebrates, both in the field and in the laboratory, and include experimental psychology, behavioral ecology, neuroscience, zoology, biology, applied ethology, and human ethology as well as many other specialized areas.

WHY JOIN?

Some of the advantages of membership are:

Subscription to ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, an international monthly publication and a leading journal in the field with over 3000 pages a year. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR contains articles, commentary, and book reviews.
A quarterly Newsletter with information about:
- jobs, fellowships, and research grants in animal behavior,
- meetings of ABS and other societies with related interests, and the biennial International Ethological Conference,
- laboratory exercises for teachers of animal behaviour, and
- animal care guidelines.
A regularly updated listing of graduate programs in animal behavior.
A Membership Directory with names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of members (currently password protected).
A regularly updated book list of interest to Animal Behavior Society members.
A regularly updated film list of topics of interest to members of the Animal Behavior Society. (hard copy on request)
A brochure describing careers for individuals interested in animal behavior (hard copy on request).
The opportunity to attend annual and regional meetings of the Animal Behavior Society at reduced rates, and present papers at these meetings.

For further information regarding ABS membership, print, fill out and mail the approarate PDF FORM to the ABS Central Office from the membership page located to: http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Members/. If you are already a member you may renew on-line from that location.

Additional inquires can be addressed to:

ABS Central Office Indiana University 2611 East 10th Street #170 Bloomington IN 47408-2603 USA