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...
Article by Mare Adachi Banner image: Miku collecting African ginger during fieldwork in Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Gabon (Photo by Pierre Philippe MBEHANG NGUEMA). Here at Kyoto University Inuyama Campus, various labs stand next to each other. Today, I...
Article by Brenda de Groot Banner image: Observing dusky langurs at coastal area of Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia during Fitsu’s undergraduate Final Year Project. At Kyoto University’s Wildlife Research Center (WRC), students come from across the globe to...
Article by Brenda de Groot Banner image: Wildlife Research Center’s Koshima island field course (Photo by Aru Toyoda) At Kyoto University’s Wildlife Research Center (WRC), graduate students conduct field-based research on some of the world’s most socially...
Prof. Jörg Ganzhorn (University of Hamburg) will be the guest speaker of the 27th International Primatology Lecture, titled " 40 years of lemur research in Madagascar: early exposure, luck, and mentors ". Livestream on CICASP YouTube Channel...
Have you been surprised by cross-cultural differences in academic environments, whether it is about how lab members communicate with one another, how students are expected to behave, or how academic institutions operate? Cross-cultural conflicts—as well as enlightenment—can...
In the CICASP seminar on October 19, 2022, we explored the world of preprint publishing, and more broadly how it fits into the open science movement. Recently, more and more articles in biology are appearing as pre-prints, published without peer-review in online repositories...
It is often said that the most successful people in society are readers. As academics, we all know the power of reading, as one cannot stand on the shoulders of giants without knowing what it is those giants have left behind!
The 12th speaker in our lecture series is Prof. Mewa Singh , who will provide a lecture under the title " On Becoming a Primatologist, and a Wildlife Biologist: A Journey of a Half-Century " to share his path to primate research and his...
