Editor's Choice Award 2015
Kazuya KobayashiOn behalf of the editors of the Journal of Ethology, I would like to congratulate the winners of the Editor's Choice Award 2015 (1 article) and the Editor's Choice 2015 (5 articles). On 21 November 2015, the winners (two coauthors) accepted their awards with certificates at a special ceremony at the 34th annual meeting of the Japan Ethological Society in Tokyo, Japan.
The winners of the Editor's Choice Award 2015, Dr. Nozomi Nishiumi (left) and Dr. Akira Mori (right) with the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Yukio Yasui (center), at the award ceremony at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology on 21 November 2015.
The Editor's Choice Award and the Editor's Choice are open to all articles published in the Journal of Ethology. Selected members of the editorial committee decide on the Editor's Choice (6-10 articles) in the volume for the year, and the first place among them receives the special award. All winning articles are given open access through the courtesy of the Japan Ethological Society (valued at Euro 2,200 per article). Unrestricted online access allows high exposure and visibility for the articles.
I hope you will consider submitting your next paper to the Journal of Ethology. I look forward to receiving your valuable work.
Yukio Yasui
Editor-in-Chief
Editor's Choice Award 2015 Article
- Distance-dependent switching of anti-predator behavior of frogs from immobility to fleeing. By Nozomi Nishiumi, Akira Mori (Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp 117-124)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-014-0419-z
Editor's Choice 2015 Articles
- Paternal care behaviors of Japanese giant salamander Andrias japonicus in natural populations. By Sumio Okada, Yukihiro Fukuda, Mizuki K. Takahashi (Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp 1-7)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-014-0413-5 - Guarding males of the hermit crab climb up algae to avoid male–male competition. By Takuma Kawaminami, Seiji Goshima (Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp 25-33)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-014-0411-7 - Conditional discrimination in Octopus vulgaris. By Koji Tokuda, Reiji Masuda, Yoh Yamashita (Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp 35-40)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-014-0414-4 - Rapid development of tool use as a strategy to predate invasive land snails. By Márcio A. Efe, Fábio Nunes de Paiva, João Marcelo Holderbaum, Richard J. Ladle (Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp 55-57)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-014-0412-6 - Object play in thick-toed geckos during a space experiment. By Valerij Barabanov, Victoria Gulimova, Rustam Berdiev, Sergey Saveliev (Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp 109-115)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-015-0426-8
