All's well that begins Wells: celebrating 60 years of Animal Behaviour and 36 years of research on anuran social behaviour

► This essay celebrates Kent Wells's (1977, Animal Behaviour, 25, 666-693) paper, 'The social behaviour of anuran amphibians'. ► We place the article in historical context and outline its major contributions. ► We discuss progress on anuran social behaviour since its publication in 1977. ► We provide our own prospectus on the future of anuran behavioural ecology.