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The PrimateCast #57: Saving the golden lion tamarin with Dr. Valeria Romano

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Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Valeria Romano, who shares with us a series of interviews she conducted with conservation scientists during a meeting on the “Strategic Planning for the Conservation of Golden Lion Tamarins” run by the Save the Golden Lion Tamarin Association in 2018. 

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Seeing Stress in Saliva

Monitoring stress levels of captive or protected animals is important for improving their well-being. How can we do it accurately and quickly enough to help identify causes of acute stress, in a way that doesn't itself cause extra stress to the animals? Nelson Broche...
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Time Travelling with Nerds

The fourth in the series of our casual science communication events ( Inuyama Nerds )* was held during the 12 th PWS symposium and the CICASP 10 th anniversary tribute. Using different concepts and approaches, three invited speakers shared their views on the meaning of...
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Scientific Visual Storytelling Contest @ PWS12

As part of celebrating the 10th Anniversary of CICASP , and to reaffirm our commitment to promoting good science communication, we hosted a Scientific Visual Storytelling Contest during the 12th PWS Symposium . The goal of a scientific visual story is to inform an audience...
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CICASP celebrates 10 years

The CICASP Team
Photo from front row left to right: Heungjin Ryu, Ikuma Adachi, Yuko Hattori, Hikaru Wakamori, Takakazu Yumoto (current Director), Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Founding Director), David Hill, Cintia Garai, Fred Bercovitch, Andrew MacIntosh, Susumu Tomiya. Photo Credit: Miho Nakamura,...
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Do monkeys see baby faces in puppies?

Here at CICASP, we love babies of all kinds. How did we evolve to be fixated on baby faces of not just our own kind but also other animals (think puppies, kittens, ducklings...)? Yuri Kawaguchi , a PRI doctoral student and resident expert on baby faces, wants to know. She...
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