I am an animal behaviorist primarily interested in behavioral development, play, sexual selection and female mate choice.  I am a member and Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society). I maintain a longitudinal study of a population of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) on the National Bison Range in western Montana. Projects now underway in this study, which has run since 1981, are measurement of costs and benefits of female mate choice and evaluation of the fitness consequences of inbreeding in the population.

Courses

• Biology 478 Animal Behavior
• Biology 421 Advanced Evolution and Population Dynamics
• NEW IN SPRING 2004: Core 201 Integrated Science: Honors: Human Nature

The National Bison Range

Pronghorn

I also maintain a study of pronghorn in Yellowstone National Park, where I am studying the dynamics of interactions between pronghorn, coyotes, and wolves.

Selected Publications