Melissa Hughes
Professor, Associate Chair
Education
Ph.D. - Duke University
B.A. - Bucknell University
Research Interests
- animal communication; honesty and deception in animal signals
- aggressive behavior and territoriality
- sex differences in morphology and behavior
- evolution of song dialects in songbirds
- individual consistency and plasticity in behavior (nonhuman "personalities")
Courses Taught
BIOL 112: Evolution, Form & Function of Organisms
BIOL 333: Ornithology
BIOL 343/343L: Animal Behavior/Lab
BIOL 650: Graduate Seminar in Behavioral Ecology
Special Topics: The Cat: Biology and Social Construction of a Domestic Species
Publications
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