Earlier this year, Chrissie took on the Senior Editor role at the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, which also coincided with the editing of a special issue on Animal Behaviour across New Zealand and the South Pacific. Together with guest editors Kristal Cain and Steph Godfrey, we invited researchers to submit papers and were delighted to end up with 16 contributions across a wide range of topics in animal behaviour. This included some fantastic buggy pieces on stick insects, wētā, and giraffe weevils. If you’d like to read a brief overview of the special issue and all the great contributions, you can check out our editorial: here. All the publications in this issue are open access, thanks to the Read & Publish agreement.