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Director, The Macaulay Library
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Biographical Background: Dr. Bradbury received his BA in Biology from Reed College (Portland, OR) in 1963. He completed his PhD with advisor Dr. Donald Griffin in Animal Behavior at Rockefeller University (New York, NY) in 1968, and then spent two years in Trinidad on a postdoctoral fellowship studying tropical bat social behavior. He has served on the biology faculties of Rockefeller University, the University of California, San Diego, and Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a past President of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.
Research Interests: Dr. Bradbury’s research efforts have included field studies on mating system evolution and social dispersion in tropical bats, the evolution of leks in African fruit bats and grouse, foraging dispersions of African antelopes, sexual selection in hermaphroditic sea slugs, and most recently, the functions of vocal mimicry in wild parrots. Most of his work has involved field studies with major emphases on Trinidad, Costa Rica, Gabon, Kenya, and both coastal and montane California.
Recent Publications:
Bradbury, J.W. and S.L. Vehrencamp (2000). Economic models of animal communication. Anim. Behav. 59:259-268.
Cortopassi, K.A. and J.W. Bradbury. (2000). The comparison of harmonically rich sounds using spectrographic cross-correlation and principal coordinates analysis. Bioacoustics 11:89-127.
Bradbury, J. W., K. A. Cortopassi, and J. R. Clemmons. 2001. Geographical variation in the contact calls of Orange-fronted Conures. The Auk 118:958-972.
Bradbury, J.W. (2003). Vocal communication in wild parrots. In: Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture and Individualized Societies. F.B.M. DeWaal and P. L. Tyack, eds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 293-316.
Angeloni, L., J.W. Bradbury, and E.L. Charnov (2002). Body size and sex allocation in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals. Behavioral Ecology 13:419-426.
Wright, T.F., K.A. Cortopassi, J.W. Bradbury, and R.J. Dooling. 2003. Hearing and vocalizations in the conure Aratinga canicularis. J. Comp. Psychol. 117:87-95.
Vehrencamp, S.L., A. Ritter, M. Keever, and J. W. Bradbury. 2003. Responses to playback of local versus distant contact calls in the Orange-Fronted Conure (Aratinga canicularis). Ethology 109:37-54.
Angeloni, L., J.W. Bradbury, and R.S. Burton. 2003. Multiple mating, paternity, and body size in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, Aplysia californica. Behavioral Ecology 14: 554-560.
Cortopassi, K.A. and J.W. Bradbury. 2006. Contact call diversity in wild orange-fronted parakeet pairs, Aratinga canicularis. Anim. Behav. 71: 1141-1154.
Bradbury, J.W. and T. Balsby. 2006. The mystery of mimicry. Psittascene 18(3):8-11.
Dantzer, M.S. and J.W. Bradbury. 2006. Vocal sacs and their role in avian acoustic display. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52 (Supplement):486-488.
Buhrman-Deever, S.C., A.R. Rappaport, and J.W. Bradbury. 2007. Geographic variation in contact calls of feral US populations of the monk parakeet. The Condor 109:389-398.
Bradbury, J.W. and S.L. Vehrencamp. In preparation. Principles of Animal Communication, 2nd Edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Expected publication in 2008.
Courses Taught at Cornell:
NBB 323: Methods in Animal Behavior (with S. Vehrencamp)
NBB 426: Animal Communication (with S. Vehrencamp)
Mentoring: Dr. Bradbury has served as faculty advisor to 15 Masters or PhD students, and hosted 11 postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory. His lab is currently full and Dr. Bradbury will not be taking new students or postdocs in the coming year.