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...
What kinds of online social networking services (SNSs) are you using? Facebook, ResearchGate, Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok? These days, many researchers use SNSs to communicate with ...
The interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human conflicts demand urgent actions by governments, corporations, and citizens. Yet it is easy for us as individuals to feel hopeless in the face of such daunting challenges given the multitudes of...
Professor Karen B. Strier will be the sixth speaker of the International Primatology Lectures on Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field . She is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of...
On October 26, 2021, Kyoto University announced plans for the reorganization of the Primate Research Institute. Please follow this link for information (in Japanese).
The fifth talk in our " International Primatology Lectures on Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field " will be given by Dr. Elisabetta Visalberghi. Dr. Visalberghi has been the Research Director at the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del...
You know Valentine's Day is right around the corner when you step into your local grocery store and are immediately surrounded by an overload of red boxes and ornaments. While other customers are deciding what to buy for whom, many of our scientist friends from PRI like to...
Dr. Morgane Allanic , who recently completed her doctoral program at PRI, studies how bonobos interact with one another to better understand the lives of our closest living relatives. Earlier this year, Morgane and her colleagues published papers (see here and here ) that...
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...
