Animal Behavior Graduate Group

Behind Claudio Monteza-Moreno’s childhood home in David, Panama, a stream runs nearby a patch of forest. Monteza-Moreno spent his adolescence exploring this backyard ecosystem, observing the iguanas, turtles, fish and snakes that crawled, swam and slithered across the landscape.

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For more than 30 years, Hedrick has researched the mating behaviors of the field cricket Gryllus integer, trying to determine which heritable traits attract a mate. For her research, Hedrick was recently elected as a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society.