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