This plenary session will provide an overview of animal behavior research in Quebec from 1975 to the present day.We will begin with the three major traditions that have studied animal behavior: psychology, ecology, and zoology, to provide context for the Society's founding.We will then trace the legacy of these traditions and the evolution of the major topics that have occupied behavioral research in Quebec since the Society's founding to the present day.

The first steps toward the creation of the SQEBC (Jean Ferron)Ethology began to be taught at the graduate level around 1970 at the UdeM. Then developed around Professor Georg Baron who supervised several graduate students in ethology from 1971. At the same time, an association between biology and psychology has begun around the study of animal behavior. Moreover, there was an effervescence of knowledge and publicatio...