I completed my Ph.D. in Animal Behavior at the University of California-Davis. My dissertation and early research focused on the parasite-defense behavior of impala (Aepyceros melampus) in southern Africa, with subsequent postdoctoral studies conducted in South Africa, Canada, and the USA. Since 1997, I have been a professor at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California, where I teach courses that include ecology, conservation, animal behavior, vertebrate biology, sustainability, and Neotropical mammalogy. I have used a wide variety of techniques in my research, including behavioral observations, spatial ecology, endocrinology, genetic parentage, camera trapping, and fecal genetic analysis. I am widely published on parasite defense grooming, sexual segregation, sexual selection, behavioral endocrinology, acoustical communication, activity patterns, and patterns of melanism. I currently collaborate with Costa Rican colleagues on several camera trap surveys of felid predators and their prey in the high elevation Talamanca mountains.

mmooring@pointloma.edu