In this talk, Professor Anderson will describe aspects of his 40-year-long career as a primatologist. He will present some key “turning points” that ended up shaping his life as a teacher and researcher. Additionally, he will revisit some of the topics on which he has worked,...
Here on Inuyama Campus, researchers study primates and other animals, alive and dead (think fossils and roadkills). But no one is more dedicated to uncovering the cognitive and behavioral connections between the living and the dead than André Gonçalves , who...
Our lecture series continues with the 15th speaker, Professor Thomas Struhsaker . His lecture, entitled “ The Life of a Naturalist ”, will highlight some of Prof. Struhsaker's scientific findings and conservation efforts while...
Nowadays, creating your own website is a powerful way of presenting who you are and what you do to your academic and professional peers, and to the broader world.
We are offering a two-part series on website building as a tool for academic marketing and science...
The 13th speaker in our lecture series will be Prof. Xijun Ni , who is a paleoanthropologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Ni will present a talk titled " From Archie Boy to Dragon Man: My research experience in tracing the wonder...
Professor Pamela Asquith will be our guest speaker for the 11th International Primatology Lecture: Observing Primatologists: My journey into Japanese Primate Studies . In this lecture, Prof. Asquith will describe her research...
This time of the year, if you are hiking on a snowy mountain and see what appears to be a Yeti walking towards you, you should probably be alarmed and call the appropriate authorities (sorry, PRI doesn't have Yeti experts!).
Primate behavioral ecologist Dr. John Mitani will be the speaker of the 8th International Primatology Lecture, titled " My Life among the Apes ". Dr. Mitani is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at...
Slow lorises, whose lives in the wild are mostly shrouded in the darkness of night, have long been considered primarily solitary primates. A growing body of evidence, however, suggests that at least some of the species are socially more active than previously thought. A new...
The threat of the sixth mass extinction looms larger with every in action of ours to protect Earth's biodiversity. Today, close to two in three primate species are threatened with extinction ( Estrada et al., 2017 ). What responsibilities do we, the human primate, bear...