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Beatrice "Bea" Mao

Telephone:   301-405-0374 (batlab)
Email: bmao1@umd.edu

Auditory Neurethology Laboratory
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

 

Background and Research Interests

As an undergraduate I studied the vocal behavior of two parrot species (Aratinga canicularis and Eolophus roseicapillus) at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. I also worked on sensory bias for the color orange in Poecilia latipinna.

I'm broadly interested in behavioral ecology, sexual selection, sociobiology, bioacoustics, and conservation. Currently I hope to investigate the mating/vocal behavior of Glossophaga soricina, Carrolia perspicillata, Eptesicus fuscus, and/or Tadarida brasiliensis. I'm also interested in the effects of anthropogenic noise and call-jamming on the behavior of the urban Austin, TX population of T. brasiliensis.

Education

Graduate Student
2008-present
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA
BEES program
Co-advised by Cynthia Moss and Gerald Wilkinson
BA
2004-2008
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Biology - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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