Robert L. Curry

Professor

Department of Biology
Villanova University

Contact information

Office: 190A Mendel Hall

Lab: 106/106A Mendel Hall

Tel: (610) 519-6455 (office)

Tel: (610) 519-5652 (lab)

FAX: (610) 519-7863

robert.curry@villanova.edu

 

Mailing address:

Department of Biology

Villanova University

800 Lancaster Avenue

Villanova, PA  19085-1699

 

www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.curry/

Page last updated: 26 Feb 2013

       Bagheera eating Beltian body

My students and I co-discovered the world's only known herbivorous spider, Bagheera kiplingi, here eating an ant-acacia's Beltian body. We are continuing to study this species' unique behavioral ecology.

Disciplines

Ornithology

Ecology

Animal Behavior

Conservation Biology

Research study systems

Ecology of herbivorous ant-acacia jumping spider

Chickadees: evolutionary and behavioral ecology

Tropical field ornithology: conservation and behavioral ecology of island-endemic Mimidae (mockingbirds and allies) and related projects

Florida Scrub-Jays

Special course offering:

Field Methods, Nova Scotia, Summer 2013

(undergrad & grad)

Courses taught

  • MSE 200 Biodiversity & Conservation

  • Bio 3011/3012 Animal Behavior lecture/lab

    • Spring semesters. Taught jointly with V. Ferretti in S13

  • Bio 3255 Introductory Ecology

    • Fall every year

  • Bio 4451 Field Ecology & Evolution lecture

    • Fall 2013: Yucatan, Mexico, version (tentative plan; Belize is a possible alternative)

  • Bio 4452 Field Ecology & Evolution lab (field course)

    • Spring 2014: includes field trip in Yucatan, Mexico or Belize, 28 Dec 2013 through 12 Jan 2014

  • Bio 4801 Conservation Biology

    • Spring 2013

  • Bio 7105 Vertebrate Ecology

    • Fall 2014

  • More about my teaching

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