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The PrimateCast gains a new member for summer 2014 CICASP graduate student, Ms. Sofi Bernstein, belongs to the section of cognition and learning and will be endeavoring to construct a complete vocal repertoire of the Tibetan macaque inhabiting China. Before she hops off...
Lola ya Bonobo means 'Paradise for Bonobos' in Lingala, one of the official languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a sanctuary located at the edge of Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo, the country to which this most-recently discovered great ape...
Kyoto University's new Leading Graduate Program in Primatology and Wildlife Science (PWS) got off to an auspicious start with an inaugural symposium held at the International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) from 6th-9th March, 2014. A total of 147 participants joined the symposium, which was co-sponsored by Kyoto University's "Origin of the Human Mind" initiative.
On 25 October 2013, it was announced that Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute and Director of CICASP was selected this year as a Person of Cultural Merit by the government of Japan. The award ceremony is set to take place at the...
This year's most-cited paper award for the journal Primates went to CICASP's own Dr. Andrew MacIntosh for his work on the epidemiology of parasite infection in wild Japanese macaques in collaboration with Dr. Michael Huffman of the Primate Research Institute and Dr...
At the 29th Congress of the Primate Society of Japan in Okayama city, Dr. Andrew MacIntosh of CICASP was one of two awardees of the Takashima Prize for the year 2013. Each year, one or two young researchers are selected for the award based on their scientific contributions of...