Support the CollegeCenter for Animal Behavior
at Miami University
Graduate Studies
The Departments of Zoology and Psychology have very active groups of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students investigating a variety of mechanistic, ecological, and evolutionary questions in animal behavior. Some of us conduct all of our research in the laboratory, some primarily work in the field, while others combine lab and field studies. The Department of Zoology offers both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.
[Learn more about the Zoology graduate programs.]
[Learn more about Zoology faculty expertise and interests.]
[Learn more about the Psychology graduate programs.]
Faculty research interests include:
- aggressive, mating, and escape behaviors in insects
- animal movement and dispersal
- anatomy and electrophysiology of simple neural circuits
- arachnology
- arthoprod preadators
- behavioral ecology
- behavioral interactions
- behavioral neurobiology
- biodiversity of spiders
- chemical neuromodulators
- dominance rank
- endogenous opiate effects
- evolution of sociality
- evolutionary ecology
- genetic techniques to estimate parentage
- habitat fragmentation effects on animal movement
- herbicide/pesticide effects on behavior and reproduction
- hormonal control mechanisms
inbreeding effects on behavior and reproduction- insect-plant interactions
- landscape ecology
- mammalogy
- maternal behavior
- mating systems
- motivational states
- neural mechanisms
- neuroendocrinology
- neuroendocrinology of lactation
- population genetics
- predator-prey interactions
- reproduction
- reproductive state
- sensorimotor integration
- small mammals
- social behavior
- social organization
- social structure
- survival
