Denise Pope

Visiting Assistant Professor

Education

  • B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College, 1989
  • Ph.D. Zoology, Duke University, 1998

Postdoctoral Training

  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 1998-2001
  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001-2003

Research Interests

  • I am broadly interested in the evolution of exaggerated and costly displays in animals through sexual selection, sexual conflict and selection for optimal communication. I focus on the mating and communication behavior of fiddler crabs and field crickets.

Courses

  • Biology 145-05 The Lives of Animals
  • Biology 313 Ethology

Selected Publications

Pope, D. S. & Haney, B. R. In press. Interspecific signaling competition between two hood-building fiddler crab species (/Uca latimanus/ and /U. musica musica/). Animal Behaviour.

Pope, D. S. 2005. Waving in a crowd: fiddler crabs signal in networks. In: Animal Communication Networks (ed. by P. K. McGregor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pope, D. S. 2000. Testing function of fiddler crab claw waving by manipulating social context. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 47: 432-437.