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In this installment of The PrimateCast, we asked students of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute to select their favorite moments from the first year and a half plus of the podcast. We then interviewed each student, asking them to tell us about their research interests, how they got into the field of primate research and why they made their respective podcast selections. Student choices could be broadly broken down into conservation- and research-related interview segments, so we are presenting these episodes in a two-part series focusing on these concepts.
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...
Collaborating member institutes at Kyoto University have designed a new graduate program aimed at developing active young wildlife scientists, researchers and conservationists wishing to integrate the scientific study of the natural world with global-minded environmental...
A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has revealed that our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, also employ right-hemispheric over left-hemispheric neural correlate to process faces. For humans, faces are one of the most critical social stimuli, carrying important...