Robert L. Curry
Professor
Department of Biology
Villanova University
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Publications
(including PDF reprints)
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CV (PDF)
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
Mailing address:
Department of Biology
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085-1699
www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.curry/
Page last updated: Wed, Jan 19, 2011
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
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Hybridization, mating systems, Black-capped and Carolina chickadees
Tropical field ornithology: conservation and behavioral ecology of island-endemic Mimidae (mockingbirds and allies) and related projects
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Black Catbird
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Yucatan Wrens
Florida Scrub-Jays
Courses taught
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MSE 200 Biodiversity & Conservation (under development for S12)
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Bio 3011/3012 Animal Behavior lecture/lab
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Spring semesters (instruction alternated with V. Iyengar, who will teach the course pair in S12)
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Bio 3255 Introductory Ecology
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Fall every year
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Bio 4451 Field Ecology & Evolution lecture
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Fall 2011: Yucatan, Mexico, version
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Bio 4452 Field Ecology & Evolution lab (field course)
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Spring 2012: includes field trip in Yucatan, Mexico, 2 Jan 2012 through 16 Jan 2010
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Bio 4801 Conservation Biology
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Spring 2012
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Bio 7105 Vertebrate Ecology
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Fall 2012
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